Once upon a time, Stephen John Smoogen <[email protected]> said: > a) RHEL-6 has many requirements requiring newer computers > b) Those newer computers do not have parallel ports
Yeah, but... parallel port hardware drivers are still included (which is nice for me because I use the parallel port to get GPS-based pulse per second signals for high-accuracy clocks). It is only lp (the line printer device) that was dropped. Now, it may be that somebody removed lp and forgot to remove parport_pc and friends, and they'll remove parport_pc/etc. once they realize this, (which would be highly aggravating to me), or maybe dropping lp is somehow an oversight (that would reflect poorly on RHEL QA, since comparing module lists from one release to another should IMHO be a basic step). Either way, I can't think of many uses (other than what I'm doing) for a parallel port that don't involve a printer (and thus lp). Oh, I just looked at module dependencies, and found maybe one reason parport_pc is still there. I have seen some PCI/PCIe serial cards that use a chipset that is common to both serial and parallel cards. The driver for those is parport_serial, which depends on parport_pc. -- Chris Adams <[email protected]> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list
