On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 09:55:40PM +0000, Philip Blundell wrote: > > 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
USB is different. The USB system is specifically designed for hot plugging. So it tends to be a lot more volatile compared to the parallel port devices. After all, if you have a printer on the parallel port, it's likely to stay there. Thus the ability to load the driver of an as yet non-existant device isn't that important for the parallel port. In any case, what you really want to do is to load the device driver once you've found the device. > If, though, you think that fixing this is too much of a change for this point Most definitely, especially since parport_register_driver doesn't even exist in 2.2. > 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. I wouldn't call it a workaround as that's how it's supposed to work anyhow. The only way for it to not work is if the parport_pc module was missing as lp calls parport_enumerate, which loads parport_lowlevel which resolves to parport_pc on i386. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
