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Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 20:31:42 +0100
From: Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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Subject: Re: PATCH for Broken PCI Multi-IO in 2.4.3 (serial+parport)
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On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 03:23:12PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> It's just ugly to keep hacking in special cases to handle hardware
> that is multifunction like this.

I just don't want it to be a huge chore to add support for these
cards.

Would everyone be happy if (say) drivers/parport/parport_serial.c had
a table and a generic version of your example function, so that the
table somehow described the multifunction cards out there?

Tim.
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