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Date:      Wed, 21 Jul 1999 23:29:11 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        des@flood.ping.uio.no, sobomax@altavista.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG, obrien@NUXI.com
Subject:   Re: PLIP is still broken :( 
Message-ID:  <199907220629.XAA01058@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Jul 1999 19:37:02 %2B1000." <199907190937.TAA28795@godzilla.zeta.org.au> 

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> >The problem with PLIP is that it tries to do splnet stuff in at
> >spltty. If you force the parallell port driver to run at splnet, PLIP
> >works but you get panics when you print because it tries to do spltty
> >stuff at splnet.
> 
> Possible quick fix (hack): change all the spltty()'s in lpt.c to
> splnet()'s.  lpt isn't a tty driver; it just abuses spltty().  Abusing
> splnet() instead should work OK for lpt and fix if_plip.

What about vpo?
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