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 ? 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 ? regards sudip > regards, > dan carpenter > _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
