Hi Linus,
This patch seems to cure some printing stalls that some people have
been seeing. The down_trylock call isn't really needed there anyway.
Please apply.
Tim.
*/
2001-02-27 Tim Waugh <[email protected]>
* drivers/parport/ieee1284_ops.c: Remove down_trylock call,
which seems to prevent stalls.
* drivers/parport/ChangeLog: Updated.
--- linux/drivers/parport/ieee1284_ops.c.sema Tue Feb 27 21:43:49 2001
+++ linux/drivers/parport/ieee1284_ops.c Tue Feb 27 21:44:16 2001
@@ -50,9 +50,6 @@
if (port->irq != PARPORT_IRQ_NONE) {
parport_enable_irq (port);
no_irq = 0;
-
- /* Clear out previous irqs. */
- while (!down_trylock (&port->physport->ieee1284.irq));
}
port->physport->ieee1284.phase = IEEE1284_PH_FWD_DATA;
--- linux/drivers/parport/ChangeLog.sema Tue Feb 27 21:44:21 2001
+++ linux/drivers/parport/ChangeLog Tue Feb 27 21:45:43 2001
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+2001-02-27 Tim Waugh <[email protected]>
+
+ * ieee1284_ops.c (parport_ieee1284_write_compat): Don't use
+ down_trylock to reset the IRQ count. Don't even use sema_init,
+ because it's not even necessary to reset the count. I can't
+ remember why we ever did.
+