linux-kernel - Re: [Bug 11603] Re: ACPI PnP on Intel MU440EX

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Date:	Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:05:12 -0600
From:	Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>
To:	matthieu castet <castet.matthieu@...e.fr>
Cc:	Martin Doucha <next_ghost@...ck.cz>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bug 11603] Re: ACPI PnP on Intel MU440EX

> 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?

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.
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