Re: [patch] 2.3.35pre3: Don't reset parallel port devs at init

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 23 Dec 1999 14:19:04 +0000

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Tim Waugh wrote:
> Hi Linus,
>
> Here is a patch to prevent resetting things like printers when parport_pc
> initialises. The rationale is that
>
> (a) it makes fetching the device ID (which is done afterwards) more
> reliable, and
> (b) the user can force a reset using tunelp after lp loads if they really
> want to.

Perhaps the lp module should reset the printer instead?

-- Jamie

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