> Are you suggesting you think this solution is better than adding an
> ioctl to the driver, which (I think) would enahnce portability?
For applications where you need speed yes. I think it would be useful to
provide some way for the parport access functions that are now available
in the kernel to be made usable from user-space, but I'm not sure what the
best way to do this is. Maybe we should create /dev/parport0 and so on.
p.