From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753662AbYIYSwg (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:52:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753152AbYIYSw1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:52:27 -0400 Received: from smtp3-g19.free.fr ([212.27.42.29]:37539 "EHLO smtp3-g19.free.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752934AbYIYSw0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:52:26 -0400 Message-ID: <48DBDDE6.3060301@free.fr> Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:52:22 +0200 From: matthieu castet User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080702 Iceape/1.1.11 (Debian-1.1.11-1) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bjorn Helgaas CC: Martin Doucha , Linux Kernel list , bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Bug 11603] Re: ACPI PnP on Intel MU440EX References: <48BA9B2C.7060007@quick.cz> <200809221701.13569.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> <48D95FB2.4050108@free.fr> <200809241705.13410.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> In-Reply-To: <200809241705.13410.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Bjorn Helgaas wrote: >> If you want you could try to run the attached program on your pc in >> "auto/bidirectional" or "auto/EPP" mode. >> >> This program does what _STA methods do. > > I'm just curious -- what do you hope to learn from this program? > Do you think it will tell us more than what actually running _STA > did? > Yes I was curious of the value before the mask : some of the mask and comparaison look strange. > The best solution I can think of would be to have a parameter like > "parport.nopnp" that made parport just probe the legacy addresses, > and document that you might need that on machines with broken ACPI > firmware. But I'm a little afraid to touch parport_pc.c. Aren't parport still probing it's own port if pnp failed ? Matthieu