lpt stopped working

[Bruce M. Simpson]

Beech Rintoul wrote:
>> Since the recent update (svn r187576) to the ppbus/ppc code my printer
>> stopped working. Every request seems to hang forever in ppb_request_bus
>> waiting for ppb->ppc_lock (at least 'top' tells me that it's hanging in
>> state 'ppbreq').
>>     
> I wonder if this is the same issue I reported on questions that lpt0 now just 
> reports "device busy"?
>   

FYI: I saw very similar issues to this with lpt0 in the backport of this 
patch to 7-STABLE, please see summary elsewhere on lists from last ~2 weeks.

cheers,
BMS