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- Lines: 28
- Date:
Sun Jul 19 20:40:43 1998
- Orig file:
v2.1.109/linux/Documentation/parport.txt
- Orig date:
Tue Apr 14 14:29:19 1998
diff -u --recursive --new-file v2.1.109/linux/Documentation/parport.txt linux/Documentation/parport.txt
@@ -62,6 +62,8 @@
(If you are using kmod and have configured parport_probe as a module,
this will just happen.)
+The probe information is available in /proc/parport/?/autoprobe.
+
Parport linked into the kernel statically
=========================================
@@ -103,6 +105,9 @@
allow you to alter it by writing a new
value in (IRQ number or "none").
+/proc/parport/0/autoprobe Any IEEE-1284 device ID information
+ that has been acquired.
+
Device drivers
==============
@@ -125,7 +130,7 @@
that this is different to the way older kernels worked; there used to
be a static association between the I/O port address and the device
name, so /dev/lp0 was always the port at 0x3bc. This is no longer the
-case - if you only have one port, it will always be /dev/lp0,
+case - if you only have one port, it will default to being /dev/lp0,
regardless of base address.
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