Re: [hpoj-devel] more code changes

[Tim W. <tw...@re...>]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 02:59:23PM -0800, PASCHAL,DAVID (HP-Roseville,ex1) wrote:

> I experimented with the interaction between ptal-mlcd and the Linux parport
> drivers.  It seems that parport_pc and parport_probe are the ones that break
> ptal-mlcd when they get insmoded.  Earlier I proposed adding something to
> ptal-mlcd to attempt to open /dev/lpX when communicating with a parallel
> peripheral.  This would cause all of the parport modules to get loaded and
> get their problematic initialization out of the way, and it would force
> parport_pc to stay loaded.

Why is the initialization problematic?

Tim.
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