[Linux-parport] [parisc-linux] [patch] Disable parport autoprobing on !X86

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Thu Jun 14 11:28:12 EDT 2007


On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:36:00 +0800
Randolph Chung <randolph at tausq.org> wrote:

> The attached patch disables auto-probing on non-X86 platforms. On many 
> other platforms, autoprobing causes a machine check.
> 
> Thanks to Julian Stecklina for reporting and helping to debug the problem.
> 
> thoughts/comments?

If io[0] is set the caller has specified a port to probe which seems like
it shouldn't be ignored ?



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