Re: regression (bisected): "modprobe parport_pc" hangs in current mainline

[Sudip Mukherjee]

Hi Michal,

On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 07:13:23AM +0100, Michal Kubecek wrote:
> On Thursday, 21 March 2019 23:43 Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > HI Michal,
> > 
> > On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 9:18 PM Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 09:30:59AM +0000, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
<snip> 
> > Can you please check in your VM or machine what do you have the alias
> > as? It should be either in "/etc/modprobe.conf" or some conf file in
> > "/etc/modprobe.d" folder.
> 
> You are right, this is in /etc/modprobe.d/00-system which is part of
> suse-module-tools package:

And I was able to reproduce the problem using a vm and Suse Tumblewood with
next-20190322. Can you please try the attached patch and test on your vm and
machine and check if it fixes the problem.

--
Regards
Sudip
diff --git a/drivers/parport/share.c b/drivers/parport/share.c
index 0171b8dbcdcd..f87948fbfc34 100644
--- a/drivers/parport/share.c
+++ b/drivers/parport/share.c
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ static int port_check(struct device *dev, void *dev_drv)
 int __parport_register_driver(struct parport_driver *drv, struct module *owner,
 			      const char *mod_name)
 {
-	if (list_empty(&portlist))
+	if (list_empty(&portlist) && strcmp(drv->name, "daisy_drv"))
 		get_lowlevel_driver();
 
 	if (drv->devmodel) {