From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753275AbbDGJ5K (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Apr 2015 05:57:10 -0400 Received: from mail-pa0-f54.google.com ([209.85.220.54]:33823 "EHLO mail-pa0-f54.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751995AbbDGJ5I (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Apr 2015 05:57:08 -0400 Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 15:26:58 +0530 From: Sudip Mukherjee To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Dan Carpenter , Willy Tarreau , devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: panel: remove duplicate code Message-ID: <20150407095658.GA27740@sudip-PC> References: <1428395101-20098-1-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> <20150407084930.GD10964@mwanda> <20150407092502.GA20278@sudip-PC> <20150407094429.GA6880@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150407094429.GA6880@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 11:44:29AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 02:55:02PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 11:49:30AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 01:55:01PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > > > > > > I hadn't looked at this driver much before. It sucks that > > > parport_driver ->attach() functions can't fail... > > > > then maybe, we can change the code of parport. currently attach and > > parport_register_driver never fails. we can modify it so that if attach > > fails then parport_register_driver will also fail. will not be that much > > difficult as it has been used only in 13 places. > > your views ? > > > > and since we are discussing parallel ports, few days back i saw one > > post in ubuntuforums that his scanner is not working because of > > lack of ppscsi.I mailed Tim Waugh, but he is not interested to work > > with ppscsi anymore. parallel port scanners are almost a thing of the past > > now. do you think it is worth that i pick up the code and modify > > it for our latest kernel and submit to Greg ? > > If you have some parport hardware, and want to take it on, that would be > great. The code needs a maintainer, and the apis are _really_ old and > messy, as you have found out. what kind of parport hardware will you suggest? regards sudip > > I'll be glad to shephard parport patches to Linus, as I've been doing > that semi-regularly for a few years now, through my char-misc git tree. > > thanks, > > greg k-h