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Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 14:23:23 +0300
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 WIP 3/5] i2c-parport: define ports to connect
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On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 03:46:15PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> as of now i2c-parport was connecting to all the available parallel
> ports. Lets limit that to maximum of 4 instances and at the same time
> define which instance connects to which parallel port
> 

So if you loaded this driver first then it was the only paraport driver
which could run?  That's unfortunate.

regards,
dan carpenter