From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934908Ab1IOUfl (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:35:41 -0400 Received: from mail-iy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.210.174]:38503 "EHLO mail-iy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934787Ab1IOUfk (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:35:40 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:35:31 -0500 From: Jonathan Nieder To: Adam Baker Cc: Greg KH , Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-parport@lists.infradead.org, Nicos Gollan , Alan Cox , Alexander Gordeev Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] parport_pc: remove ancient, overeager quirk that disables EPP support on many chipsets Message-ID: <20110915203530.GA31345@elie> References: <201109151441.15015.leo@alaxarxa.net> <20110915133555.GB16636@kroah.com> <20110915173950.GA19450@elie> <201109152123.07678.linux@baker-net.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201109152123.07678.linux@baker-net.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21+46 (b01d63af6fea) (2011-07-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. :)