Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755673AbZCKRC3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:02:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755114AbZCKRBZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:01:25 -0400 Received: from mail.tpi.com ([70.99.223.143]:4245 "EHLO mail.tpi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755246AbZCKRBY (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:01:24 -0400 Message-ID: <49B7EE5F.2090803@canonical.com> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:01:19 -0700 From: Tim Gardner User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090103) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arobinso@nyx.net Subject: Re: [PATCH 29/31] esp: Auto-load esp module when device opened. References: <6a6e566959d30a7e03d677bcb5f68f71d1988e9d.1236702228.git.scott@canonical.com> <20090311134649.00e77e2e@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090311134649.00e77e2e@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 754 Lines: 21 Alan Cox wrote: > On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 20:55:52 -0700 > Tim Gardner wrote: > >> The esp module is missing the char-major-57-* alias that would cause it >> to be auto-loaded when a device of that type is opened. This patch adds >> the alias. > > NAK - the default esp behaviour is to do unsafe ISA probes to find the > ports. We don't want it autoloading therefore. > Good point. Its been awhile since I had to think about ISA probing. -- Tim Gardner tim.gardner@canonical.com -- 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/