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Remove PARIDE core and high level protocols, taking care not to break
low-level drivers (used by pata_parport). Also update documentation.
Signed-off-by: Ondrej Zary <linux@zary.sk>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com>
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The pata_parport is a libata-based replacement of the old PARIDE
subsystem - driver for parallel port IDE devices.
It uses the original paride low-level protocol drivers but does not
need the high-level drivers (pd, pcd, pf, pt, pg). The IDE devices
behind parallel port adapters are handled by the ATA layer.
This will allow paride and its high-level drivers to be removed.
Unfortunately, libata drivers cannot sleep so pata_parport claims
parport before activating the ata host and keeps it claimed (and
protocol connected) until the ata host is removed. This means that
no devices can be chained (neither other pata_parport devices nor
a printer).
paride and pata_parport are mutually exclusive because the compiled
protocol drivers are incompatible.
Tested with:
- Imation SuperDisk LS-120 and HP C4381A (EPAT)
- Freecom Parallel CD (FRPW)
- Toshiba Mobile CD-RW 2793008 w/Freecom Parallel Cable rev.903 (FRIQ)
- Backpack CD-RW 222011 and CD-RW 19350 (BPCK6)
The following bugs in low-level protocol drivers were found and will
be fixed later:
Note: EPP-32 mode is buggy in EPAT - and also in all other protocol
drivers - they don't handle non-multiple-of-4 block transfers
correctly. This causes problems with LS-120 drive.
There is also another bug in EPAT: EPP modes don't work unless a 4-bit
or 8-bit mode is used first (probably some initialization missing?).
Once the device is initialized, EPP works until power cycle.
So after device power on, you have to:
echo "parport0 epat 0" >/sys/bus/pata_parport/new_device
echo pata_parport.0 >/sys/bus/pata_parport/delete_device
echo "parport0 epat 4" >/sys/bus/pata_parport/new_device
(autoprobe will initialize correctly as it tries the slowest modes
first but you'll get the broken EPP-32 mode)
Note: EPP modes are buggy in FRPW, only modes 0 and 1 work.
Signed-off-by: Ondrej Zary <linux@zary.sk>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@opensource.wdc.com>
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Modify paride driver to use the new parallel port device model.
Tested-by: Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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We're about to change the semantics of pi_register()'s return value, so
rename it to something else first, so that any unconverted code reliaby
breaks.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
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