Re: [Fwd: Re: long-term regression - Parallel Port broken?]

[Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>]

On Wednesday 28 May 2008 03:19:05 am david@lang.hm wrote:
> On Tue, 27 May 2008, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> 
> >> On Sunday 29 July 2007 09:59:18 pm david@lang.hm wrote:
> >>> On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> >>>> This seems an awful lot like this bug report:
> >>>>  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5832
> >>>>
> >>>> Can you take a look at 5832, and maybe we can combine your problem
> >>>> with that one if you agree they look the same?
> >>>
> >>> yes, it definantly looks like the same thing.
> >
> > Hi David,
> >
> > I think 2.6.25 + the patch here:
> >    http://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&m=121190728701748&w=2
> >
> > should fix the parallel port problem you saw.  If you have a
> > chance to confirm or disprove that, I'd appreciate hearing
> > about it.  I'm trying to get this change in for 2.6.26.
> 
> I'll see what I can do. I've moved twice since running into this and at 
> the moment the printer is hooked to a network dongle, I'll move it to the 
> server and try a couple tests, probably not before thursday though.

This patch is in 2.6.26-rc6, so I'll assume this problem is fixed
unless I hear otherwise.

Bjorn