[parisc-linux] Status of parport driver in 2.6.20.1

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 01:56:34PM +0200, Julian Stecklina wrote:
> Randolph Chung wrote:
> >Hrm, all the automatic probing in parport_pc is causing the HPMC. Can 
> >you do a quick experiment and boot the kernel with "parport=0"? The 
> >SuperIO driver should still register the parallel port.
> 
> It does:
> 
> SuperIO: Found NS87560 Legacy I/O device at 0000:00:0e.1 (IRQ 19)
> SuperIO: Serial port 1 at 0x3f8
> SuperIO: Serial port 2 at 0x2f8
> SuperIO: Parallel port at 0x378
> SuperIO: Floppy controller at 0x3f0
> SuperIO: ACPI at 0x7e0
> SuperIO: USB regulator enabled
> parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 5 [PCSPP]
> ...
> lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
> 
> and CUPS just successfully printed a test page. :) I guess this should 
> be documented somewhere. What about a Wiki page about current problems? 
> I am happy to provide content about the parport issue and document my 
> ALSA experiments, just don't know where to put it.

I suspect we should fix the driver rather than just document it.
Although the documentation will still be useful for people using older
kernels.