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SubjectRe: Patch: 2.1.85: Bugfix: LP device selection
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>Something like the patch below might fix the problem with modules.  The
>reason for the CONFIG_PARPORT_OTHER conditional is that, if portcount were

It wasn't really the intent that CONFIG_PARPORT_OTHER would get used for this,
and I'm not sure I like it. It makes the semantics unnecessarily murky -
support for other hardware ought to be completely orthogonal to how the
sharing works.

>I think that there's a reason for not looking for "gaps" when registering
>a port, too (register parport0, register parport1, unregister parport0,
>then re-register at parport*0* rather than parport2). I can't think what
>it is at the moment.

It's more predictable the way it works now. As I've mentioned before, the
SCSI code does the same thing - though you don't refer to a SCSI host adapter
by name very often so it's not so significant.

If there's a weight of opinion in favour of changing it to `look for gaps'
then go ahead. There's no major technical obstacle.

p.


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