>Hmmm.
>
>Having just come from a bit of a battle with the new parport stuff, it
>would appear that, if "PC-Style Hardware" (parport_pc) is enabled and
>used as a module, the dependencies of lp, ppa etc. are incorrect; e.g. -
>modprobing "lp" causes "parport" to be loaded, but not "parport_pc".
>A manual hack of modules.dep, or a forced modprobe for parport_pc fixes
>the problem, but both are somewhat inelegant.
>
>Is there a more correct workaround?
This is a topic of linux-parport@torque.net.
A easy solution is add this line in /etc/conf.modules:
post-install parport modprobe parport_pc
New parport code in 2.1.48 is still unstable if compiled as module. I made
some patch that I posted to Blundell that should fix all bugs.
Andrea Arcangeli