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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: freebsd-current@freefall.cdrom.com, gclarkii@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject: Re: sysctl (lpt control)
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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