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SubjectRe: parport_pc disables parallel port on unload.
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Bodo Eggert wrote:

> Bill Unruh <unruh@physics.ubc.ca> wrote:
>
>> I have a parallel port module gps.c which I have written ( after the short
>> module described in Linux Device Drivers), whose purpose is to timestamp
>> the occurance of interrupts on the parallel port Ack line to as high a
>> temporal accuracy as possible.These are generated by the PPS line of a Gamin
>> 18LVC gps receiver. Since I want the highest accuracy possible I do not want
>> the latency of going through the stock drivers and waiting for a poll or
>> select to let me know an interrupt has occured.
>
>> So, could anyone point me to some relatively comprehensible documentation (
>> or "canned program") to show me how to switch the parallel port back on if
>> unloading parport_pc has switched it off.
>
> You can copy/paste the relevant parts from the parport_pc driver.

Of course, then, identifying the relevant parts becomes the problem, but
thank you.

>
>

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