This was a tough job for us, but it is done, and it works. There are several gotchas in the "design" of parport_pc which made it more difficult, mainly in the assumptions about hard-coding the Intel port addresses and IRQs, the /etc/udev/rules.d/parport_pc.conf file, but it is all behind us now.

BPP,PS2 modes (and IRQS) work. We are on Technologic Systems TS-72xx machines.

Could not find any EPP cards on PC104 initially, but later we did find one. Extended parallel port modes have been left untouched, and "might work."

So I have two questions:

1) Ok GNU coding standards, well parport_pc.c is a cluster of different styles, so let's say I make an acceptable patch. How do I submit it and to whom? Does anyone even want it?

2) The technical decisions are a discussion that it seems would be necessary part of submitting the code. How is this done?

THANKS!

If this is parport_pc, the kernel module, the kernel maintainer for that may well want it. If there's no email in that code, I suggest (painful though it is) that you join the lmkl and post it there. That would also be the place for the technical discussion. It was 500+ emails per day when I had to join it. And those guys do go on!