[parisc-linux] lp0 kablooie (new kernel)

[Thomas Bogendoerfer]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 10:55:41AM -0600, Greg Ingram wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Grant Grundler wrote:
> > Greg Ingram wrote:
> > > 
> > > Writing data from my C100 to /dev/lp0 makes the kernel go kablooie.  It's
> > > the kernel from the recent (0.9.3?) iso.  Known problem?  Any more info I
> > > could supply that would help?  I've appended everything on the console
> > > from the crash, through the power cycle, to mounting disks again.  
> > 
> > Can you grab a newer kernel from ftp://ftp.parisc-linux.org/kernels/32/
> > and try that?
> > 
> > 0.9.3 is just not worth chasing at this point.
> 
> Yikes!
> 
> apollos:~# uname -a
> Linux apollos 2.4.17-pa23 #1 Sun Feb 10 09:24:11 MST 2002 parisc unknown
> apollos:~# echo >/dev/lp0
> lp0: compatibility mode

I've reproduced it on my B132. You could avoid the crash by disabling
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC. No idea how good parport works, but my B132 doesn't crash
anymore.

Thomas.

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