On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:12:42 +0200 Rene Herman rene.herman@gmail.com wrote:
On 09/06/2007 08:49 AM, Krzysztof Helt wrote:
Actually, the parport_pc driver is loaded by the udev by default, so the IRQ7 cannot be requested (I tested - IRQ7 request failed even if I had not used the printer).
Not everybody uses udev. But more importantly, only if the hardware in question is discoverable. [...]
And _then_ there's the bit about the ISA probing being a huge gaping race by design. There's really no defending that massive junk. All ISA autoprobing is bad engineering and should be ripped out and shot, period. It's broken both by design and implementation. The solution to making things nicer is not autoprobing but not using legacy ISA -- and basically noone is other than for entertainment purposes.
I am quite sure we won't agree on this one. My reason (to keep autodection) is sheer laziness of giving two numbers. Even giving them does not make user free of problems how to avoid irqs and dmas with installed devices but not visible in the /proc/interrupts file).
I would like to ask Takashi to decide on this issue. I will done as he says.
Will this driver be included? I found a bug in probing - if something is wrong after the SB region is requested it won't be released. So the next version is needed to be done anyway (or a small patch later).
Regards, Krzysztof