In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Herbert Xu writes: >NFS is completely different, it's not a hardware device. IMHO you should >compare it with other parport devices, e.g., pd/pf/etc. They all fail to >load unless you actually have the devices present.
Right, but that doesn't mean they _should_. The PARIDE drivers, in particular, are basically old-style code that is not particularly well integrated into parport. USB is another example of a system that lets you load the protocol modules independently of port drivers. This is definitely the way parport was intended to behave; it obviously just didn't end up that way in 2.2. If, though, you think that fixing this is too much of a change for this point in the game, set the bug to wishlist priority and we'll find a way to work around the immediate modconf problem in boot-floppies. p. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
