Here is a patch to prevent resetting things like printers when parport_pc
initialises. The rationale is that
(a) it makes fetching the device ID (which is done afterwards) more
reliable, and
(b) the user can force a reset using tunelp after lp loads if they really
want to.
Tim.
*/
Index: linux/drivers/parport/parport_pc.c
diff -u linux/drivers/parport/parport_pc.c:1.1.1.8 linux/drivers/parport/parport_pc.c:1.15
--- linux/drivers/parport/parport_pc.c:1.1.1.8 Tue Nov 9 09:20:00 1999
+++ linux/drivers/parport/parport_pc.c Tue Dec 21 11:50:38 1999
@@ -1687,12 +1687,6 @@
parport_pc_write_data(p, 0);
parport_pc_data_forward (p);
- parport_pc_write_control(p, PARPORT_CONTROL_SELECT);
- udelay (50);
- parport_pc_write_control(p,
- PARPORT_CONTROL_SELECT
- | PARPORT_CONTROL_INIT);
- udelay (50);
/* Now that we've told the sharing engine about the port, and
found out its characteristics, let the high-level drivers
-
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