Re: linux-2.4.12 / linux-2.4.13 parallel port problem

bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
Thu, 25 Oct 2001 15:41:02 GMT


In article <20011024230917.H7544@redhat.com>,
Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> wrote:

| On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 04:53:56PM +0100, Dave Garry wrote:
|
| > modprobe verbose_probing=1 irq=7 gives exactly the same results.
|
| This turned out to be because parport_pc ignores a supplied irq when
| no io parameter is also supplied. 'io=0x378 irq=7' works fine.

Thank you... that sure doesn't jump out at someone, it generates no
error message, etc.

Question: is this intended behaviour? I would think that you would
normally want to just say irq=auto and let the driver find the io
address just as it does normally.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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