Re: GVP IO-Extender

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Ken Tyler wrote:
> I have a GVP IO-Extender parport driver working but with a problem. It
> hangs linux if the printer is turned off and on after the module has been
> unloaded.  The cause is an interrupt without a handler, once interrupts
> from the chip are enabled they can't be disabled, well they can but then
> continuous interrupts are generated. There are comments in the 2.2.n code
> that say the same thing.
> 
> What's the way to handle this situation ?

Do not allow the module to be unloaded?

BTW, how does AmigaOS handle this? Or are you always out-of-luck if you ever
used the IO-Ext parport under AmigaOS and booted into Linux afterwards?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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