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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Osterlund <peter.osterlund@mailbox.swipnet.se>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Printing to off-line printer in 2.4.0-prerelease
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 15:39:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010104153910.A1507@athlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2k88czda4.fsf@ppro.localdomain> <20010104112027.G23469@redhat.com> <20010104145229.E17640@athlon.random> <20010104142043.N23469@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010104142043.N23469@redhat.com>; from twaugh@redhat.com on Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 02:20:43PM +0000

On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 02:20:43PM +0000, Tim Waugh wrote:
> to start with, fall into parport_write anyway (it will just time out

As noted yesterday falling into parport_write will silenty lose data when the
printer is off.

If it's not feasible to make parport_write reliable against power-off
printer, then I recommend to loop in interruptible mode before entering the
main loop (waiting the printer to power-on) like in latest patch from Peter.

Andrea
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-01-04 14:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-03 18:44 Printing to off-line printer in 2.4.0-prerelease Peter Osterlund
2001-01-03 19:13 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-03 21:00   ` Peter Osterlund
2001-01-03 21:35     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-04  0:08       ` Peter Osterlund
2001-01-04  0:41         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-04  1:09           ` Peter Osterlund
2001-01-04  1:39             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-04 11:17               ` Tim Waugh
2001-01-04  9:27         ` Tim Waugh
2001-01-04 13:50           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-04 11:20 ` Tim Waugh
2001-01-04 13:52   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-01-04 14:20     ` Tim Waugh
2001-01-04 14:39       ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2001-01-04 14:54         ` Tim Waugh
2001-01-04 19:45           ` Peter Osterlund
2001-01-04 19:07       ` Peter Osterlund
2001-01-04 21:52         ` Tim Waugh
2001-01-05  0:33           ` Peter Osterlund
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-01-04 15:30 Jesse Pollard
2001-01-04 19:22 ` Gunther Mayer
2001-01-05  1:13   ` Jesse Pollard
2001-01-04 23:20 ` David Ford

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