Re: parport_pc tries to load parport_serial automatically

[Tim Waugh]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 07:32:42AM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

> Could you remove the request_module() from parport_pc ? 

Yes.

Here is a patch against 2.4.5-ac24.

Tim.
*/

2001-07-04  Tim Waugh  <[e-mail]>

	* drivers/parport/parport_pc.c: Don't load parport_serial.
	* drivers/parport/ChangeLog: Updated.

--- linux/drivers/parport/parport_pc.c.orig	Wed Jul  4 13:30:01 2001
+++ linux/drivers/parport/parport_pc.c	Wed Jul  4 13:30:26 2001
@@ -2931,11 +2931,6 @@
 	if (ret && registered_parport)
 		pci_unregister_driver (&parport_pc_pci_driver);
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_PARPORT_SERIAL_MODULE
-	if (!ret)
-		request_module ("parport_serial");
-#endif
-
 	return ret;
 }
 
--- linux/drivers/parport/ChangeLog.orig	Wed Jul  4 13:30:32 2001
+++ linux/drivers/parport/ChangeLog	Wed Jul  4 13:32:01 2001
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
[phone]  Tim Waugh  <[e-mail]>
+
+	* parport_pc.c (init_module): Don't try to load parport_serial.
+	This means that the user needs to load it (or a hardware detection
+	program on their behalf) if necessary.
+