Re: Solution to printing problem (dumb mistake)
Philip Blundell (Philip.Blundell@pobox.com)
Sun, 22 Aug 1999 14:15:07 +0100
>Turns out it wasn't a kernel problem. I had the io port and irq set wrong
>in conf.modules, and parport peacefully accepted the given options and
>sent data to the bit bucket.
>
>Question: is this proper behavior? It caused a system freeze on 2.3.13 and
>failed silently on 2.3.15-pre2. Is there any way for the parport module to
>say "you stupid (l)user, there isn't a parallel port there!"?
Well, yes. Actually the parport code used to do some checking to be sure the
user was telling the truth. Unfortunately, a few people had weirdo ports that
parport_pc couldn't correctly identify and so the code was changed to accept
whatever the user says.
Ho, hum.
p.
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