Re: [parport] Use of inb/out in backends...

From: Oliver Rauch (oliver.rauch@rauch-domain.de)
Date: Mon May 28 2001 - 14:13:41 PDT

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    Jochen Eisinger wrote:
    >
    > Hi!
    >
    > Since lots of new parport backends are available now, I wonder whether
    > we should add a general interface to the parport, that would allow to
    > make use of more advanced interfaces like the kernel parport drivers while
    > keeping the whole thing easy to port to other architecures (like older
    > kernels, *BSD or OS/2)
    >
    > I remember that it was discouraged to use inb/outb in backends some versions
    > earlier... I think we should continue to work with the concept of the
    > sanei_* interfaces. What we have now is that some backends work with
    > some architectures and others not, because every backend implements it's
    > own interface.
    >
    > regards
    > -- jochen

    Hello Jochen,

    I think this is a good and important thing. We should do this for
    sane-1.0.6 (Henning: do you already have a TODO for sane-1.0.6?)

    Bye
    Oliver 

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