On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 07:32:42AM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

> Could you remove the request_module() from parport_pc ? 

Yes.

Here is a patch against 2.4.5-ac24.

Tim.
*/

2001-07-04  Tim Waugh  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

        * drivers/parport/parport_pc.c: Don't load parport_serial.
        * drivers/parport/ChangeLog: Updated.

--- linux/drivers/parport/parport_pc.c.orig     Wed Jul  4 13:30:01 2001
+++ linux/drivers/parport/parport_pc.c  Wed Jul  4 13:30:26 2001
@@ -2931,11 +2931,6 @@
        if (ret && registered_parport)
                pci_unregister_driver (&parport_pc_pci_driver);
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_PARPORT_SERIAL_MODULE
-       if (!ret)
-               request_module ("parport_serial");
-#endif
-
        return ret;
 }
 
--- linux/drivers/parport/ChangeLog.orig        Wed Jul  4 13:30:32 2001
+++ linux/drivers/parport/ChangeLog     Wed Jul  4 13:32:01 2001
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+2001-07-04  Tim Waugh  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+
+       * parport_pc.c (init_module): Don't try to load parport_serial.
+       This means that the user needs to load it (or a hardware detection
+       program on their behalf) if necessary.
+
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