Re: parport_pc tries to load parport_serial automatically

From: Tim Waugh (twaugh@redhat.com)
Date: Wed Jul 04 2001 - 07:36:34 EST


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 <twaugh@redhat.com>

        * 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 @@
+2001-07-04 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>
+
+ * 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.
+
-
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