Re: [patch] fix parport_serial / serial link order (for 2.4.20-pre8)

[Marek Michalkiewicz]

> What was wrong with the original, much smaller patch that you sent me
> previously (below)?

It was a hack (more a proof of concept where the problem was), and
Pavel Janik had some trouble with it (it hung before detecting the PCI
serial ports, while changing the link order worked fine - not sure why,
could this be a kernel stack overflow resulting from calling rs_init()
from within parport code instead of directly from the top level?).

My most recent patch simply moves parport_serial.c to a different
directory - that's why the patch is so big, but it doesn't otherwise
change a single line in that moved file (I split NetMos support to
the next patch, after this one is accepted and possible NetMos bugs
are resolved - works fine here with parport in polling mode, IRQ
sharing with serial ports not tested).

After the parport_serial.c move, the init order would be:
 - parport
 - serial
 - parport_serial (needs both of the above initialized first)
 - other char/block/net drivers (some of them might need the parallel
   ports, including the PCI ones: lp, paride, plip - so moving all of
   parport after char/block/net would be wrong)

> I'm happy to accept whichever patch is the better.

I'd suggest the more recent (larger, but not really...) one.

Thanks,
Marek