Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965203Ab0GPLMW (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:12:22 -0400 Received: from adelie.canonical.com ([91.189.90.139]:47009 "EHLO adelie.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965153Ab0GPLMP (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:12:15 -0400 Message-ID: <4C403E87.4040503@canonical.com> Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:12:07 +0100 From: Lee Jones User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100527 Thunderbird/3.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Russell King - ARM Linux , gregkh@suse.de CC: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Amit Kucheria Subject: Re: [PATCH] Stop ARM boards crashing when CUPS is loaded - 2.6.35-rc5 References: <4C3C72C6.4000005@canonical.com> <20100715130214.4c9303b2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20100715200618.GA6773@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <4C40218A.4090806@canonical.com> <20100716092018.GB16995@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <4C402746.6080309@canonical.com> In-Reply-To: <4C402746.6080309@canonical.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1092 Lines: 22 On 16/07/10 10:32, 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.) I have lobbied for one of our partners to conduct this work, but I don't think this would be something that is in their interest to fix. Nevertheless, I am currently waiting on a reply from them. FAO GregKH, Do you think this would be something that may interest you and your Linux drivers project? Or perhaps a student who wants to get their feet wet and play with some platform driver code. -- 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/