Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] lp: implement proper detach function for parport_driver lp | From | Hannes Weisbach <> | Date | Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:25:59 +0200 |
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Am 19.06.2013 um 20:32 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman: > >> They are doing what I am doing: translating whatever the >> user does on a /dev/parportN-node and sending device-specific commands >> over USB. When they do parport_announce_port(), lp.c should also be >> initialized and they should have the same problem. > > Why hasn't anyone reported that problem then? Surely someone must use > these, they've been in the kernel tree for over a decade now. I don't know. Maybe nobody uses them (anymore/ever)? Nobody tried to rmmod the kernel module or compiled the driver into the kernel?
The solution to the problem (if someone encountered it) was probably policy-based: just don't unload the module. The comment in lp.c is clear: /* Write this some day. */ ;)
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