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SubjectRe: udev versus parallel-port Zip drive
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,

greg k-h
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