On Monday 26 March 2007 2:59 pm, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:06:19 -0700 > David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 adds a field to "struct parport" pointing to that device node, > > and updates non-legacy port drivers to initialize that device pointer. > > That field replaces the analagous PCI-only support in parport_pc. > > > > Signed-off-by: David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --- > > NOTE this depends on an earlier patch to make pnp devices set up DMA, > > parport is the primary user of legacy i8237 dma infrastructure. > > Confusion reigns. > > To which "earlier patch" do you refer?
The one named "init-dma-masks-in-pnp_dev.patch" in 2.6.21-rc4-mm1 ... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
