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SubjectRe: Some more details on parport autoprobing bug
On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Tim Waugh wrote:

> > It happens in userspace, too, if the program accessing /dev/parport0 has
> > to autoload the module.
>
> What exactly is getting autoloaded -- the whole parport stack?

Yes.

> Can you
> see how long after parport_pc loads you have to wait before things are
> okay again? Put a post-install parport_pc rule in modules.conf to sleep
> for varying numbers of seconds.

0.070001 seconds.

post-install parport /sbin/modprobe -k parport_pc && usleep 70000

doesn't work, but

post-install parport /sbin/modprobe -k parport_pc && usleep 70001

does.

LLaP
bero

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