From: miltonm@bga•com (Milton Miller)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] Stop ARM boards crashing when CUPS is loaded - 2.6.35-rc5
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:23:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <miltonm-arm-parport-1@bga.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C402746.6080309@canonical.com>
On Fri Jul 16 2010 about 05:33:06 EST, Lee Jones wrote:
> > The best solution is probably for the parport code to go through a
> > modernisation cycle like the serial code did, essentially using
> > platform devices to pass the base addresses. This would make the
> > driver more portable, and eliminates this problem entirely (because
> > platforms which don't have parports won't register the platform device(s)
> > necessary for parport to even probe illegal addresses.)
>
> This sounds brilliant - when are you going to start? </kidding>
It has a long time ago ...
drivers/parport/parport_pc.c calls parport_pc_find_nonpci_ports,
which is in asm/parport.h
>
> In all seriousness, do you think anyone is likely to undertake this
> work anytime soon? I am seeing this problem in a distribution which
> is due for release in October. I have no problem implementing a config
> change in the meantime, but as you say, a more _correct_ and portable
> solution should be sought.
Why not replace the arm asm/parport.h with asm-generic/parport.h which
already has a check for CONFIG_ISA, which appears to only be selected
on a few ARM platforms?
milton
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2010-07-15 20:02 ` [PATCH] Stop ARM boards crashing when CUPS is loaded - 2.6.35-rc5 Andrew Morton
2010-07-15 20:06 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-07-16 9:08 ` Lee Jones
2010-07-16 9:20 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-07-16 9:32 ` Lee Jones
2010-07-16 11:12 ` Lee Jones
2010-07-26 22:26 ` Greg KH
2010-07-16 16:23 ` Milton Miller [this message]
2010-07-16 16:42 ` Lee Jones
2010-07-16 19:38 ` Milton Miller
2010-07-16 20:54 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-07-16 9:37 ` Martin Michlmayr
2010-07-16 13:27 ` Woody Suwalski
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