From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755877AbbDGOVa (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Apr 2015 10:21:30 -0400 Received: from mail-pd0-f178.google.com ([209.85.192.178]:33110 "EHLO mail-pd0-f178.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754708AbbDGOV2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Apr 2015 10:21:28 -0400 Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 19:51:17 +0530 From: Sudip Mukherjee To: Willy Tarreau Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Dan Carpenter , Willy Tarreau , devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: panel: remove duplicate code Message-ID: <20150407142117.GA31260@sudip-PC> References: <1428395101-20098-1-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> <20150407084930.GD10964@mwanda> <20150407092502.GA20278@sudip-PC> <20150407094429.GA6880@kroah.com> <20150407095658.GA27740@sudip-PC> <20150407101206.GA7431@kroah.com> <20150407141459.GC17557@1wt.eu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150407141459.GC17557@1wt.eu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 04:14:59PM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > > > > 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? > > > > No idea, go look at the drivers and code to figure that out. > > Not-so-old laptops used to have parport connectors for a while, and can be > found at a very cheap price or even for free by now with dead batteries. free laptop sounds good.. :) where can i get some? > > A number of old mini-itx boards used to have a parallell port and were easy > to hack on (eg: those with a jack power connector, onboard video and a PXE > capable NIC to boot the freshly built kernel over the network). They're less > easy to find though. > > If you want to run on your PC, you'll have to order a PCIe parallel port NIC > I guess. i already have pc with parallel port, and on that i check your panel codes before sending. but here we were discussing about the required hardware to test ppscsi module. regards sudip > > Cheers, > Willy >