Re: [PARPORT] Re: PARPORT_DEV_EXCL


Philip Blundell (philb@gnu.org)
Sat, 26 Sep 1998 12:26:20 +0100


>I'm jumpy about removing it altogether, but how's this?

I don't think there's any need to print a warning. The "lurk" flag hasn't
actually done anything for a very long time so there's no compatibility risk.
We can just ignore it and remember not to reuse that bit for anything else.

>Incidentally, can someone who knows more about PLIP than me tell me if it
>actually works when sharing with other things? Or should it be
>PARPORT_DEV_EXCL too?

I think it should be OK. I'm fairly sure someone has tested it. We really
want to avoid adding the EXCL flag to more drivers than absolutely necessary -
one of the reasons I was a bit reluctant to add it was that I suspect people
may start wanting to add it in places where it's not needed.

p.

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