Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Jun 2001 20:50:54 +0100 | From | Tim Waugh <> | Subject | Re: parport_pc tries to load parport_serial automatically |
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On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 06:59:11PM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote:
> This would be a bit bad, because it would require people to guess > whether they might have a card that parport_serial can drive and/or > try loading the module to see what happens.
Not necessarily. The module has a PCI device table, so a user-space utility can figure it out and adjust /etc/modules.conf accordingly.
> I guess one option would be for parport_pc to somehow "know" what cards are > really multi-I/O ones, and only load parport_serial when it will be able to > find something to do. Doesn't seem all that appealing though.
Replace parport_pc's "knowledge" with parport_serial's PCI device table and a user-space utility, and that's kind of what I had in mind.
> If you do that then the code will effectively be there all the time, > even when it's not needed. You might as well just compile it in to > parport_pc. To be honest, there isn't all that much of it so maybe > this wouldn't be such a bad idea.
Perhaps.
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