Re: [hpoj-devel] 2.4.0 kernel issues

[Burkhard K. <bu...@bu...>]

David Paschal
> Hi, Burkhard.
> 
> > 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).
parport_probe no longer exist in the 2.4 kernel, so there it will 
be some other candidate. This issue should be resolved with the use 
of the new parport_driver_register interface. So it will be a mixed
(kernel version dependant) solution.

Burkhard
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