Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Jun 1999 14:02:21 +0100 (GMT) | From | Riley Williams <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] New documentation |
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Hi Philip.
>>>>+ 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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