Messages in this thread | | | From | Milton Miller <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Stop ARM boards crashing when CUPS is loaded - 2.6.35-rc5 | Date | Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:23:55 -0500 |
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On Fri Jul 16 2010 about 05:33:06 EST, Lee Jones wrote: > > The best solution is probably for the parport code to go through a > > modernisation cycle like the serial code did, essentially using > > platform devices to pass the base addresses. This would make the > > driver more portable, and eliminates this problem entirely (because > > platforms which don't have parports won't register the platform device(s) > > necessary for parport to even probe illegal addresses.) > > This sounds brilliant - when are you going to start? </kidding>
It has a long time ago ...
drivers/parport/parport_pc.c calls parport_pc_find_nonpci_ports, which is in asm/parport.h
> > In all seriousness, do you think anyone is likely to undertake this > work anytime soon? I am seeing this problem in a distribution which > is due for release in October. I have no problem implementing a config > change in the meantime, but as you say, a more _correct_ and portable > solution should be sought.
Why not replace the arm asm/parport.h with asm-generic/parport.h which already has a check for CONFIG_ISA, which appears to only be selected on a few ARM platforms?
milton
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