linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: panel: remove duplicate code

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Date:	Tue, 7 Apr 2015 12:45:23 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
Cc:	Willy Tarreau <willy@...a-x.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: panel: remove duplicate code

On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 02:55:02PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 11:49:30AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 01:55:01PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > 
> > I hadn't looked at this driver much before.  It sucks that
> > parport_driver ->attach() functions can't fail... 
> 
> then maybe, we can change the code of parport. currently attach and
> parport_register_driver never fails. we can modify it so that if attach
> fails then parport_register_driver will also fail. will not be that much
> difficult as it has been used only in 13 places.
> your views ?

If you write the patch then I will review it.  :)

> 
> and since we are discussing parallel ports, few days back i saw one
> post in ubuntuforums that his scanner is not working because of
> lack of ppscsi.I mailed Tim Waugh, but he is not interested to work
> with ppscsi anymore. parallel port scanners are almost a thing of the past
> now. do you think it is worth that i pick up the code and modify
> it for our latest kernel and submit to Greg ?

If you want to do the work, I won't say no! :P

regards,
dan carpenter

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