[PATCH] Make parport_pc use check_legacy_ioport()

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Sun Dec 11 08:49:54 EST 2005


On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 17:00 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 20:54 +1100, Michael Neuling wrote:
> > I've attched this here. This patched is rebased to Paulus current
> > powerpc.git tree.  It compiles but is not tested (although it was
> > tested on an earlier verision).
> 
> Thanks. This doesn't seem to cover the SuperIO probes though; they
> possibly still need check_legacy_ioport() (which also needs to be
> exported).

How so ?

> Admittedly, it would be better to have a separate superio PNP driver
> which handles configuration of all the devices on these chips rather
> than having partial superio code in individual (parport,8250,IrDA,...)
> drivers, but that's one for later.

Well, we expect the vaerious individual ISA devices to show up in the
device-tree, if not, they are not accessible. That covers SuperIOs.

Ben.





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