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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Miguel Ojeda <maxextreme@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Driver - cfag12864b Crystalfontz 128x64 2-color Graphic LCD
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 00:56:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1157846186.6877.82.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <653402b90609091614p371dc60ub7c52d0910cf106@mail.gmail.com>

Ar Sul, 2006-09-10 am 01:14 +0200, ysgrifennodd Miguel Ojeda:
> parport_register_device() "The PARPORT_DEV_EXCL flag is for preventing
> port sharing, and so should only be used when sharing the port with
> other device drivers is impossible and would lead to incorrect
> behaviour. Use it sparingly!"

This is the one you want. It's there for things like parallel port
quickcams.

> Ok, easier that way. In fact, the conversion function takes just 20
> lines... I can provide it as an example with the driver. Is the
> Documentation/* the right place?

If its only 20 lines why not, in fact if its that short it might be fine
in kernel too.



  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-09 23:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-08 17:10 Miguel Ojeda
2006-09-09 16:10 ` Alan Cox
2006-09-09 18:46   ` Nish Aravamudan
2006-09-09 23:26     ` Miguel Ojeda
2006-09-09 23:14   ` Miguel Ojeda
2006-09-09 23:56     ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-09-09 23:43       ` Miguel Ojeda

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