From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932138AbbDHOHx (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Apr 2015 10:07:53 -0400 Received: from mail-pa0-f54.google.com ([209.85.220.54]:34039 "EHLO mail-pa0-f54.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754127AbbDHOHu (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Apr 2015 10:07:50 -0400 Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 19:37:39 +0530 From: Sudip Mukherjee To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Arnd Bergmann , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dan.carpenter@oracle.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] parport: return of attach and parport_register_driver Message-ID: <20150408140739.GA12490@sudip-PC> References: <1428499817-12065-1-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> <20150408134857.GA5585@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150408134857.GA5585@kroah.com> 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 Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 03:48:57PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 07:00:16PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > > } > > What really needs to happen is for the parport subsystem to move to the > driver model, which I don't think ever happened way back during the 2.5 > development cycle. When that happens, then you will not have code like > this, and the drivers will work "properly"... > > That's a much larger task, especially trying to do it without breaking > anything along the way, but it's the "correct" thing to do. and i guess since parport is orphan so no one is working on that also, and maybe one more problem you all will be facing is lack of systems with a parport. I do have systems with parallel port, so let me try and see if i can do something about it. To start with, I think I should go back to your LDD3-ch.14 for rest of the day. regards sudip > > thanks, > > greg k-h