On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 12:12:06PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 03:26:58PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 11:44:29AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > 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 ? > > > > > > > > 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 have some parport hardware, and want to take it on, that would be > > > great. The code needs a maintainer, and the apis are _really_ old and > > > messy, as you have found out. > > what kind of parport hardware will you suggest? > > No idea, go look at the drivers and code to figure that out. Not-so-old laptops used to have parport connectors for a while, and can be found at a very cheap price or even for free by now with dead batteries. I've been using mine as a JTAG connector exclusively until I replaced this laptop. A number of old mini-itx boards used to have a parallell port and were easy to hack on (eg: those with a jack power connector, onboard video and a PXE capable NIC to boot the freshly built kernel over the network). They're less easy to find though. If you want to run on your PC, you'll have to order a PCIe parallel port NIC I guess. Cheers, Willy _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
