Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Jun 2001 10:23:03 +0100 | From | Tim Waugh <> | Subject | Re: parport_pc tries to load parport_serial automatically |
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On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 03:17:32AM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> If the initialization of parport_serial fails, we obviously get an > error message, which is really annoying:
[This is different to the issue that is fixed in the -ac tree about parport_serial getting probed for even when disabled in config.]
The idea was that people who have multi-IO cards but don't know what modules are can have things Just Work: parport_serial gets loaded automagically and detects their cards for them. But yes, the flip side is that people who _don't_ have multi-IO cards are going to get that error.
There are three ways out, I think:
- change parport_pc so that it doesn't request parport_serial at init. In this case, how will parport_serial get loaded at all? Perhaps with some recommended /etc/modules.conf lines (perhaps parport_lowlevel{1,2,3,...})?
- people who get the error and don't like it can put 'alias parport_serial off' in /etc/modules.conf. Not especially pleasant, I guess.
- parport_serial could be made to initialise successfully even if it doesn't see any devices that it can drive.
What do people think?
Tim. */ [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |