On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
: I'm worried somebody needed to disable LP_CAREFUL to print, probably
: it's not a big deal to keep it.
I removed it because otherwise I would have had to do twice as many tests
to convince myself that all combinations of flags and printer states
worked correctly. I can reinsert it if you think that's necessary. But
then I don't think the tunelp man page and the comments in the kernel
should say that it is obsolete. I think obsolete means "you should never
ever have to use this stuff".
: However parport_write can still could silenty discard data, but maybe
: it can't notice errors with some handshake.
At least with my printer, it only discards data when it is powered off. If
you power off the printer between the times when lp_wait_ready returns and
parport_write is called, I think it is ok to lose data. After all, if the
power off had occurred a few ms later, the data would already have been in
the printer when it was powered off, and then you would have lost data
anyway.
: I didn't checked the details of the DMA based handshake so Tim needs
: to comment if this can be considered a final/right fix (I hope it's
: not ;).
I don't understand the lowlevel parport details, so I can not comment on
this.
-- Peter sterlund peter.osterlund@mailbox.swipnet.se Skndalsvgen 35 http://home1.swipnet.se/~w-15919 S-128 66 Skndal +46 8 942647 Sweden-- To unsubscribe, send mail to: linux-parport-request@torque.net -- -- with the single word "unsubscribe" in the body of the message. --
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Thu Jan 04 2001 - 15:17:14 EST