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Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 19:37:39 +0530 From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com> To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dan.carpenter@...cle.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] parport: return of attach and parport_register_driver On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 03:48:57PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 07:00:16PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > > } > > What really needs to happen is for the parport subsystem to move to the > driver model, which I don't think ever happened way back during the 2.5 > development cycle. When that happens, then you will not have code like > this, and the drivers will work "properly"... > > That's a much larger task, especially trying to do it without breaking > anything along the way, but it's the "correct" thing to do. and i guess since parport is orphan so no one is working on that also, and maybe one more problem you all will be facing is lack of systems with a parport. I do have systems with parallel port, so let me try and see if i can do something about it. To start with, I think I should go back to your LDD3-ch.14 for rest of the day. regards sudip > > thanks, > > greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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