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From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCH] Cleanup PC parallel port Kconfig
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On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 09:31:27PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 06/14/2011 03:08 PM, Luck, Tony wrote:
> > I took a look at the back of all my ia64 systems - none of them
> > have a parallel port.  It seems unlikely that new systems will
> > start adding parallel ports :-)
> > 
> > So even if I had a printer (or other device) that used a parallel
> > port, I have no way to test it.
> 
> If it has PCI slots, it can have a parallel port.

Is that a clue about where a select statement should be?