Re: [Bug 11603] Re: ACPI PnP on Intel MU440EX

From: matthieu castet
Date: Thu Sep 25 2008 - 14:52:37 EST


Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
If you want you could try to run the attached program on your pc in "auto/bidirectional" or "auto/EPP" mode.

This program does what _STA methods do.

I'm just curious -- what do you hope to learn from this program?
Do you think it will tell us more than what actually running _STA
did?

Yes I was curious of the value before the mask : some of the mask and comparaison look strange.

The best solution I can think of would be to have a parameter like
"parport.nopnp" that made parport just probe the legacy addresses,
and document that you might need that on machines with broken ACPI
firmware. But I'm a little afraid to touch parport_pc.c.
Aren't parport still probing it's own port if pnp failed ?


Matthieu
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