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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/parport')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/parport/share.c | 21 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/parport/share.c b/drivers/parport/share.c index 96538b7975e5..d6920ebeabcd 100644 --- a/drivers/parport/share.c +++ b/drivers/parport/share.c @@ -230,6 +230,18 @@ static int port_check(struct device *dev, void *dev_drv) return 0; } +/* + * Iterates through all the devices connected to the bus and return 1 + * if the device is a parallel port. + */ + +static int port_detect(struct device *dev, void *dev_drv) +{ + if (is_parport(dev)) + return 1; + return 0; +} + /** * parport_register_driver - register a parallel port device driver * @drv: structure describing the driver @@ -279,6 +291,15 @@ int __parport_register_driver(struct parport_driver *drv, struct module *owner, if (ret) return ret; + /* + * check if bus has any parallel port registered, if + * none is found then load the lowlevel driver. + */ + ret = bus_for_each_dev(&parport_bus_type, NULL, NULL, + port_detect); + if (!ret) + get_lowlevel_driver(); + mutex_lock(®istration_lock); if (drv->match_port) bus_for_each_dev(&parport_bus_type, NULL, drv, |