Re: [patch] parport-arca-16 (fwd)

Philip Blundell (philb@gnu.org)
Sat, 10 Oct 1998 09:42:35 +0100

>The problem is that the when whoever (sue me) merged parport and plip
>together they felt that checking for a valid irq line was enough to verify
>that the port was useful. The old code (-) from 2.0.35 works fine on SPP
>and 'generic Parallel' ports. e.g. paraports with no assigned irq.

That was me (at least in part). It's always been my understanding that PLIP
needed an irq to operate. Are you *sure* your laptop can't allocate an IRQ to
its parallel port or are you just assuming that because none is autodetected?

p.

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