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> On Sat, 4 Apr 1998, Tim Waugh wrote:
>
> >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.
>
> I agree with you, kmod must be fixed to handle that.

hello -

i believe that what you're referring to is a problem that early
versions of kmod had with modules loading other modules during their
own init_module() phase - we are currently testing and debugging a
patch which solves this problem, and which is available by searching
linux-kernel archives (patch was submitted by Greg Zornetzer). as i
have said before, and will say again, kirk and i have always intended to
support these behaviors. if, after applying greg's patch, you are still
having difficulty with your parallel port driver loading its various
bits and pieces, please let me know.

> BTW, there is another annoying bug: if I don' t add this line:
>
> post-install parport modprobe -k parport_lowlevel
>
> to /etc/conf.modules, parport_pc is not loaded at it should be. This
> workaround change also the time when parport_pc is loaded and don' t work
> in a configuration of CONFIG_PARPORT=y CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=m and
> CONFIG_PRINTER=m.

this is not a kmod issue. please take this up with the parallel port
driver maintainers. it looks to me like parport_pc is at no time
requested by any of the other parallel port driver components, and so
needs to be "manually" loaded from /etc/modules.conf. thanks.

-cyrus durgin.
cider@speakeasy.org.

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