linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH/RFC] parport_pc: remove ancient, overeager quirk that disables EPP support on many chipsets

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Message-ID: <20110915203530.GA31345@elie>
Date:	Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:35:31 -0500
From:	Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@...il.com>
To:	Adam Baker <linux@...er-net.org.uk>
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda <leo@...xarxa.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-parport@...ts.infradead.org,
	Nicos Gollan <gollan@...ormatik.uni-kl.de>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@....cs.msu.su>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] parport_pc: remove ancient, overeager quirk that
 disables EPP support on many chipsets

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. :)
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