Re: [PATCH v2] Input: drivers/joystick: use parallel port device model

[Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Aug 08, 2015 at 04:05:15PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 07:55:51PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > Modify db9 driver to use the new Parallel Port device model.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
> > ---
> > 
> > v2: an extra check was removed. db9_base could not be removed. Already
> > mailed you the reasons, reference is at:
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/8/3/403
> 
> Hi Dmitry,
> I was telling you on the other thread that to remove db9_base we will
> need to modify the parport code and then it has to be tested by everyone
> again and that will also change the old behaviour of parport. The v2 to
> which I am replying now is still having that db9_base.
> 
> Please see the following patch, this is the minimum change required to
> update db9 driver. Personally I donot like this approach as in this
> method if a parallel port is hotplugged after this driver is loaded then
> it will not work. Please let me know your views on the posted v2 and
> also on the following proposal.

Hi Dmitry,
Did you have a chance to look at this?
Pali Rohár has the hardware and he is ready to test it.

regards
sudip