Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 16:30:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 16:30:28 -0400 Received: from mailout01.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.80]:25101 "EHLO mailout01.sul.t-online.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 16:30:16 -0400 Message-ID: <3ACF790B.72171236@t-online.de> Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 22:31:07 +0200 From: Gunther.Mayer@t-online.de (Gunther Mayer) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: PATCH for Broken PCI Multi-IO in 2.4.3 (serial+parport) In-Reply-To: <3ACECA8F.FEC9439@eunet.at> <3ACED679.7E334234@mandrakesoft.com> <20010407111419.B530@redhat.com> <3ACF5F9B.AA42F1BD@t-online.de> <20010407200340.C3280@redhat.com> <3ACF6920.465635A1@mandrakesoft.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input)@localhost.localdomain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jeff Garzik wrote: > Like I mentioned in a > previous message, the Via parport code is ugly and should go into a Via > superio driver. It is simply not scalable to consider the alternative > -- add superio code to parport_pc.c for each ISA bridge out there. I > think the same principle applies to this discussion as well. Yes, superio will go away and replaced by user level utility: http://home.t-online.de/home/gunther.mayer/lssuperio-0.61.tar.bz2 PNPBIOS and ACPI will help to configure parallel ports (and others), after some issues have been resolved. Again this will be builtin to parport (and not parport_acpi.o etc) to make it failproof. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/