Re: [patch/rfc 2.6.20-git] parport reports physical devices

[David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>]

On Sunday 18 February 2007 9:28 pm, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 21:08:07 -0800 David Brownell wrote:
> 
> > Currently a parport_driver can't get a handle on the device node for the
> > underlying parport (PNPACPI, PCI, etc).  That prevents correct placement
> > of sysfs child nodes, which can affect things like power management.
> > 
> > This patch resolves that issue for non-legacy configurations:
> > ...
> 
> Does this patch address http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5496 ?

I don't think it would affect that behavior, but surprises can happen;
like the root cause of 5496 being the lack of hookup to the real device.


> What are you wondering about parport DMA?

First, whether it ever worked on ports enumerated through PNP.

After all, I saw it oops there, ergo the surprisingly-far-afield
parts of this patch to update PNP so it now sets up DMA masks.
(Which, I was thinking, probably matters mostly for parport;
but I'm just assuming 24-bit masks are correct there.)


> Please see http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7491
> and http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7492

Suggesting that no, it's never worked on ports enumerated
through PNP.  There's a possibility that if it previously
worked through PCI, it now works ... someone with a parport
printer could check it out.

- Dave