Am 19.06.2013 um 20:32 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman: > >> They are doing what I am doing: translating whatever the >> user does on a /dev/parportN-node and sending device-specific commands >> over USB. When they do parport_announce_port(), lp.c should also be >> initialized and they should have the same problem. > > Why hasn't anyone reported that problem then? Surely someone must use > these, they've been in the kernel tree for over a decade now. I don't know. Maybe nobody uses them (anymore/ever)? Nobody tried to rmmod the kernel module or compiled the driver into the kernel?
The solution to the problem (if someone encountered it) was probably policy-based: just don't unload the module. The comment in lp.c is clear: /* Write this some day. */ ;) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
