> Most likely due to lack of knowledge about parport from the
> author's side ... well thats my guess at least. Doing it for
> other reasons is broken.
Steven> No, a lot of the Rio utilities are meant to be portable, and
Steven> the parport driver only exists in Linux, and will require
Steven> additional kernel code to boot (as I understand it). I'll be
Steven> using it for riofs, but not until I figure it out.
Wrong, now the code is non portable because it only works on
Linux/ia32 and not on all the other architectures. Had it been using
parport this would not have been a problem.
Hitting device registers like this from user land is _bad_ and non
portable.
Jes
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