On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 08:05:56AM -0800, Gora Mohanty wrote:
> I am trying to use libiee1284 routines to do data acquisition over a
> dedicated parallel port, and I would like to make sure that nothing else
> on the system is trying to concurrently talk on the parallel port.
> It seems that accessing /dev/parport0 automatically loads the modules
> parport, parport_pc, lp and ppdev. Why are the last two loaded?
ppdev is the driver that makes /dev/parport0 work; you want that loaded.
> Is it possible to specify that they not be loaded? I was thinking
> that the loading of lp, etc. was specified via /etc/modules.conf,
> but mine has no entries for these, except for parport_pc. I am using
> Redhat Linux 7.3 on an x86 box.
The libieee1284 library accesses /dev/lp0 in order to provoke the
low-level driver (parport_pc) into being loaded; it needs to find out
what ports are available to use, and it does this via /proc. The
entries in /proc aren't populated until parport_pc is loaded.
Why is lp causing you problems?
It sounds to me like F1284_EXCL is exactly what you are after. Are
you using it?
Tim.
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