So I figured out how to substitute the sb module (depends on uart401
and sound) for the sound module to get useful results from kerneld
doing, say 'cat /dev/sndstat': I added
alias char-major-14 sb
to /etc/conf.modules. So far, so good.
Now, the problem I'm having is with the printer driver. 'lpr foo.ps'
causes lpd to access /dev/lp0. This loads the lp driver, which
depends on parport. parport loads parport_probe, which looks for
parallel port devices. It's rather unhappy because there are no
parallel port drivers. So I have to manually load parport_pc before I
can do anything else (actually, before I try to anything, otherwise
the parport_probe and lp modules will hang). So the dependency graph
looks like
lp
\
parport_probe-+->parport
/
parport_pc
Is there any way to convince kerneld to load parport_pc before it
loads lp, without overriding the default connection from char-major-6
to lp? I want both modules loaded, but in a specific order.
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