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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Adam Baker <linux@baker-net.org.uk>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda <leo@alaxarxa.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-parport@lists.infradead.org,
	Nicos Gollan <gollan@informatik.uni-kl.de>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] parport_pc: remove ancient, overeager quirk that disables EPP support on many chipsets
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:35:31 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110915203530.GA31345@elie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201109152123.07678.linux@baker-net.org.uk>

Adam Baker wrote:

> The code has sat around for a long time because when I first posted the patch 
> I got no feedback to indicate if anyone else was suffering from the bug and if 
> anyone else had hardware that exhibited the bug it was supposed to fix so I 
> didn't want to pursue submitting it. Over the years I have seen occasional 
> reports of users suffering from the problem but I no longer have any EPP 
> hardware to test it on.
>
> That's why I posted the mail that said if someone else can verify the patch is 
> still useful I'm happy for it to be submitted with my signed off by on it

Makes sense.  Thanks for explaining and thanks for your work, Adam.
Actually I think 3 years before a patch gets the attention it deserves
is not so bad --- it was mostly that the problem has been known since
1999 that bothered me. :)

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-15 20:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-15 12:41 [PATCH/RFC] parport_pc: remove ancient, overeager quirk that disables EPP support on many chipsets Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda
2011-09-15 13:35 ` Greg KH
2011-09-15 17:39   ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-09-15 20:23     ` Adam Baker
2011-09-15 20:35       ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2011-09-16 10:09         ` Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda
2011-09-15 13:41 ` Bastien ROUCARIES
2011-09-15 13:44   ` Bastien ROUCARIES
2011-09-16 10:39     ` Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda
2011-09-15 19:43   ` Jonathan Nieder
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-09-15 13:02 Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda
2011-09-15  9:33 Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda
2011-09-15 10:16 ` Greg KH

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