>>>>+ LPT Printer support is enabled.
Already corrected, now reads "Parallel port support is enabled."
>>>>+ parport= [HW,LP]
>>>>+ plip= [LP,NET] Parallel port network link.
>>>>+ lp= [LPT] Parallel Printer.
>>> If `LP' and `LPT' are supposed to be the same, this is bogus.
>> They were all meant to be LPT rather than LP. Also, I'm not quite
>> sure what you mean by "this is bogus", so if you could explain, it
>> would be appreciated.
> You've got the order of things backwards. Printer support and
> PLIP (and a few other things) depend on parport, and parport
> doesn't depend on anything other than the presence of the
> hardware. It's perfectly reasonable to have PLIP configured in
> but not the lp driver.
Ah...my apologies, that was just a case of bad phraseology. Have a
look at the latest version of the patch, at the following URL, where I
believe this has already been dealt with as detailed above.
http://www.MemAlpha.CX/Linux/Patches/kernparm.diff
Best wishes from Riley.
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| There is something frustrating about the quality and speed of Linux |
| development, ie., the quality is too high and the speed is too high, |
| in other words, I can implement this XXXX feature, but I bet someone |
| else has already done so and is just about to release their patch. |
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* ftp://ftp.MemAlpha.cx/pub/rhw/Linux
* http://www.MemAlpha.cx/kernel.versions.html
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