Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: kmod freezes | Date | Sat, 04 Apr 1998 19:57:21 +0100 | From | Philip Blundell <> |
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>> >I don't believe that preventing that configuration in the first place is >> >an answer, because maybe one day we'll have the printer driver trying to >> >set itself up with a lowlevel parport driver each time an open() is done >> >on an lp device if it failed at initialisation time. >> >> Preventing that configuration is probably a good idea in terms of 2.2, since > I >> doubt we can make it work properly in that timeframe. Whether that's possib >le >> or not is another question. > >Fixing kmod is not very hard. request_module() simply needs to start > > if(!kmod_started) > return -EBUSY;
I meant making the lp driver work properly when the parport drivers are modules - I wasn't talking about kmod.
p.
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