Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1999-32,: Re: PATCH: please backout this set of broken changes

# Re: PATCH: please backout this set of broken changes

Philip Blundell (pb@nexus.co.uk)
Tue, 10 Aug 1999 16:32:30 +0100

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In message <E11EC7U-00037g-00@the-village.bc.nu>, Alan Cox writes:
>> Machines with heterogenous parport hardware are pretty much an oddball case.
>
>> People who care about their ordering should probably use modules or invent a
>> command line option to enforce it in any case. For the 99.9% (maybe even
>> 100% at the moment) of users with only one type of hardware it's no big deal.
>
>Three years ago maybe. Your average Linux user doesn't hack kernels any more

Your average Linux user doesn't have more than one type of parallel port
hardware either. The only way you can do that is with esoteric addons. More
than one port of the same type will work fine anyway, initcall or no initcall.

p.

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