On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 02:55:02PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 11:49:30AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 01:55:01PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > > > > I hadn't looked at this driver much before. It sucks that > > parport_driver ->attach() functions can't fail... > > then maybe, we can change the code of parport. currently attach and > parport_register_driver never fails. we can modify it so that if attach > fails then parport_register_driver will also fail. will not be that much > difficult as it has been used only in 13 places. > your views ?
If you write the patch then I will review it. :) > > and since we are discussing parallel ports, few days back i saw one > post in ubuntuforums that his scanner is not working because of > lack of ppscsi.I mailed Tim Waugh, but he is not interested to work > with ppscsi anymore. parallel port scanners are almost a thing of the past > now. do you think it is worth that i pick up the code and modify > it for our latest kernel and submit to Greg ? If you want to do the work, I won't say no! :P regards, dan carpenter _______________________________________________ devel mailing list de...@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
