Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:26:28 -0700
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Lee Jones <lee.jones@canonical.com>
Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
        Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Stop ARM boards crashing when CUPS is loaded -
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On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 12:12:07PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> 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.

Yes, sure, that would be good.  Post it on the driverdevel mailing list
and see who responds.

thanks,

greg k-h
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