Re: Printer-device configuration problems

Eric S. Raymond (esr@thyrsus.com)
Fri, 11 Sep 1998 01:16:01 -0400


Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@e-mind.com>:
> I can' t see anything broken in lp/parport and everything works just fine
> here (linekd and modularized).

I've got it working now. Looks like all this was the result of a strange bug
in the handling of module dependencies -- lp.o wasn't triggering a load of
parport.o when it needed it.

I'll try to pin this down more closely and make a report.

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