Re: [Lcd4linux-devel] progress report RE: HD44780 stuff

[Martin H. <ma...@he...>]

Hi Xavier,

> For example your patch breaks the ppdev init for 'generic' HD like mine
> ! I have to use old raw handling.
It doesn't really - it's just that my patch had a bug. I hope I'll get 
to fixing it today. The busyflag feature is meant (and tested) to work 
on e generic parallel port as well as my "GPIO parport emulation".

> As it's not a special feature, don't write a function, but keep it
> within if() statements.
Ok, I get it. Makes sense. And this way, one could nicely add some 
sanity checks based on the "Model". I like it.

>>But as I said - I like the idea a lot (even if I don't share your view 
>>that the user knows what [s]he's doing :-))
> 
> Martin, please remember we're not writing a KDE app ;) This is a daemon
> for 'advanced users' who know (especially for HD) what (and why) they
> are doing. I think the lcd4linux users population is more than half
> geeks (like me ;) and the others are embedded systems where people know
> exactly their job.
I don't really know the lcd4linux user-base - but I'm always weary when 
assuming that the user knows what he's doing. Maybe I'm overly paranoid 
(or I've been spending too much time doing support :-))

Martin

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