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Date:      Tue, 1 Aug 1995 12:09:47 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        freebsd-current@freefall.cdrom.com, gclarkii@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: sysctl (lpt control)
Message-ID:  <199508010209.MAA03936@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>How hard would it be to add the ability to turn printer poll mode
>off and on via a sysctl variable?  Or could we add it to sysconfig?
>I see this question ALL of the time.

Not very hard.  Perhaps only 100 times as hard as using lptcontrol :-).

The correct fix is to fix the driver so that it only uses polling when
interrupts don't work.

Bruce



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