Re: [hpoj-devel] 2.4.0 kernel issues

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Hi, Burkhard.

> I see a lot of "already open" messages from the ptal layer - maybe
> we have other problems as well, but "scanimage --test" runs on my 
> box now successfully.
That's normal, due to the somewhat underhanded method I had to use to
make the SANE HP backend work with PTAL.

> BTW: in ieee12844/Makefile.in the "cp" expression to move kernel
> modules to the appropriate location was commented out. Was this
> done for any particular purpose? I am asking because it meant
> that the modules had to be installed by hand.
That part is left over from the previous maintainers.  The new
"make install" I added to the top-level directory doesn't even invoke
makefiles in subdirectories.  By default, it installs the modules under
/usr/local/lib, which doesn't help make it accessible to modprobe.
Based on John Chmielewski's message from September 13, it sounds like it
could be moved to (or possibly symlinked in) /lib/modules/misc, but there's
still the problem that modprobe doesn't detect that ieee12844pp.o depends
on parport_probe, not just parport and parport_pc.  My idea was to add a
dummy function in ieee12844pp.c which never got called but which made a
reference to a function in parport_probe (for example, parport_probe()).
Since you're working on this code at the moment could you try this out and
let me know if it fixes the problem (or I can try it myself later).

David