Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Mar 2004 14:01:35 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: udev versus parallel-port Zip drive |
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On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 01:55:44PM -0800, walt wrote: > I've been fiddling with Zip-drive support -- both USB and > parallel-port. > > When I compile everything as modules I find that the > parallel-port driver for Zip drives (ppa) does not load > automatically. To make the parallel Zip drive work I > need to do a 'modprobe ppa' manually, after which everything > works as expected. > > I can only imagine the complexity involved in figuring out > what is attached to the parallel port at boot-time -- there > must be thousands of possibilities to sort through. > > My question, I suppose, is: what are the chances that a > parallel-port device can be automatically detected by udev > and the appropriate module loaded? Is this a pipe-dream? > Or maybe it should already work and I'm just omitting some > important steps?
udev does no device discovery. Please, please, please, please remember this.
udev has nothing to do with this issue.
Here's a little sign to print out for the next time someone tries to bring this issue up:
********************************** * udev does no device discovery! * **********************************
thanks,
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