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SubjectRe: [PATCH] staging: panel: remove duplicate code
On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 11:44:29AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 02:55:02PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 11:49:30AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 01:55:01PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > >
> > > I hadn't looked at this driver much before. It sucks that
> > > parport_driver ->attach() functions can't fail...
> >
> > then maybe, we can change the code of parport. currently attach and
> > parport_register_driver never fails. we can modify it so that if attach
> > fails then parport_register_driver will also fail. will not be that much
> > difficult as it has been used only in 13 places.
> > your views ?
> >
> > and since we are discussing parallel ports, few days back i saw one
> > post in ubuntuforums that his scanner is not working because of
> > lack of ppscsi.I mailed Tim Waugh, but he is not interested to work
> > with ppscsi anymore. parallel port scanners are almost a thing of the past
> > now. do you think it is worth that i pick up the code and modify
> > it for our latest kernel and submit to Greg ?
>
> If you have some parport hardware, and want to take it on, that would be
> great. The code needs a maintainer, and the apis are _really_ old and
> messy, as you have found out.
what kind of parport hardware will you suggest?

regards
sudip

>
> I'll be glad to shephard parport patches to Linus, as I've been doing
> that semi-regularly for a few years now, through my char-misc git tree.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h


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