Bug#78750: Processed: duh
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 09:55:40PM +0000, Philip Blundell wrote:
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> USB is another example of a system that lets you load the protocol modules
> independently of port drivers. This is definitely the way parport was intended
USB is different. The USB system is specifically designed for hot plugging.
So it tends to be a lot more volatile compared to the parallel port devices.
After all, if you have a printer on the parallel port, it's likely to stay
there. Thus the ability to load the driver of an as yet non-existant device
isn't that important for the parallel port.
In any case, what you really want to do is to load the device driver once
you've found the device.
> If, though, you think that fixing this is too much of a change for this point
Most definitely, especially since parport_register_driver doesn't even exist
in 2.2.
> in the game, set the bug to wishlist priority and we'll find a way to work
> around the immediate modconf problem in boot-floppies.
I wouldn't call it a workaround as that's how it's supposed to work anyhow.
The only way for it to not work is if the parport_pc module was missing as
lp calls parport_enumerate, which loads parport_lowlevel which resolves to
parport_pc on i386.
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