From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933203AbXCZWAA (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:00:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933238AbXCZV77 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:59:59 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:54414 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933231AbXCZV76 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:59:58 -0400 Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:59:42 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: David Brownell Cc: Linux Kernel list , Jean Delvare Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.21-rc5 1/3] parport->dev driver model support Message-Id: <20070326145942.a090d277.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <200703260906.19442.david-b@pacbell.net> References: <200703260906.19442.david-b@pacbell.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:06:19 -0700 David Brownell wrote: > Currently a parport_driver can't get a handle on the device node for the > underlying parport (PNPACPI, PCI, etc). That prevents correct placement > of sysfs child nodes, which can affect things like power management. > > This patch adds a field to "struct parport" pointing to that device node, > and updates non-legacy port drivers to initialize that device pointer. > That field replaces the analagous PCI-only support in parport_pc. > > Signed-off-by: David Brownell > --- > NOTE this depends on an earlier patch to make pnp devices set up DMA, > parport is the primary user of legacy i8237 dma infrastructure. Confusion reigns. To which "earlier patch" do you refer?