Eyal> lp.o just says "kernel: lp1 off-line" repeatedly. It does print
Eyal> something after a while (a page every few minutes) but it is
Eyal> useless.
Hallo,
I think this change in 1.3.98 relating the lp-driver isn't right.
The new condition to print the message is
: if ((status & LP_OFFL) || !(status & LP_PSELECD)) {
: printk(KERN_INFO "lp%d off-line\n", minor);
: if (LP_F(minor) & LP_ABORT)
: return rc?rc:-EIO;
and
#define LP_OFFL 0x0008
#define LP_PSELECD 0x10 /* unchanged input, active high */
>From my data sheet for a parallel port IC I can fine:
> Bit 3 (of Status Port) nERR -nERROR
>
> The level of the nERROR input is read by the CPU as bit 3 of the Printer
> Status Register. A logic 0 means an error has been detected; a logic 1
> means no error has been detected.
So the statement is true if the printing routine timed out because the
printer requested a stop as we delivered data to fast. But this is no error!
I propose to change the if statemaent in both routines to
if (!(status & (LP_OFFL | LP_PSELECD))) {
to make sure, the printer reports an "error" and "offline". If the printeris
not switched on, both signals will be low too.
Uwe Bonnes bon@elektron.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de
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