Re: Ho ho ho - Linux v2.6.10

["Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@ums.usu.ru>]

Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Ok, with a lot of people taking an xmas break, here's something to play
> with over the holidays (not to mention an excuse for me to get into the
> Gl?gg for real ;)

Here it boots and works, but I can't say that I have done any serious
testing. The following message appears in the kernel log:

Dec 25 11:38:09 lfs parport_pc: Ignoring new-style parameters in presence of
obsolete ones
Dec 25 11:38:09 lfs parport_pc: VIA 686A/8231 detected
Dec 25 11:38:09 lfs parport_pc: probing current configuration
Dec 25 11:38:09 lfs parport_pc: Current parallel port base: 0x378
Dec 25 11:38:09 lfs parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, using FIFO
[PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP]
Dec 25 11:38:09 lfs parport_pc: VIA parallel port: io=0x378, irq=7

I don't understand the first line, and it wasn't there in 2.6.9. Could you
please explain what it means? I don't pass any parameters to the module. I
use module-init-tools version 3.0 although I know it is not the latest.

Relevant .config portion:

#
# Parallel port support
#
CONFIG_PARPORT=m
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=m
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_CML1=m
# CONFIG_PARPORT_SERIAL is not set
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_FIFO=y
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_SUPERIO=y
# CONFIG_PARPORT_OTHER is not set
CONFIG_PARPORT_1284=y

-- 
Alexander E. Patrakov