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kernel 2.5.8-pre2, tipar: parallel link cable driver for TI graphing calculators

PATCH New Romain LIEVIN 1 participant 1 message Apr 6, 2002 Char and misc drivers

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PATCH 1/1 kernel 2.5.8-pre2, tipar: parallel link cable driver for TI graphing calculators

Hi Linus,

I sent you a patch for 2.5.8-pre1 kernel. I resubmit it for 2.5.8-pre2.

This is a new driver which uses parport for handling a parallel link cable designed to connect a Texas Instruments graphing calculators to a computer/workstation.

This driver has been submitted to lkml and has been approved by Alan Cox.

Regards, Romain.

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MAINTAINERS +5 -0
@@ -1507,6 +1507,11 @@
 M:     [email protected]
 S:     Maintained
 
+TI PARALLEL LINK CABLE DRIVER
+P:     Romain Lievin
+M:     [email protected]
+S:     Maintained
+
 TLAN NETWORK DRIVER
 P:	Torben Mathiasen
 M:	[email protected]
drivers/char/Config.help +21 -0
@@ -595,6 +595,27 @@
 
   If unsure, say N.
 
+CONFIG_TIPAR
+  If you own a Texas Instruments graphing calculator and use a
+  parallel link cable, then you might be interested in this driver.
+
+  If you enable this driver, you will be able to communicate with
+  your calculator through a set of device nodes under /dev. The
+  main advantage of this driver is that you don't have to be root
+  to use this precise link cable (depending on the permissions on
+  the device nodes, though).
+
+  This code is also available as a module ( = code which can be
+  inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want).
+  The module will be called tipar.o. If you want to compile it as a
+  module, say M here and read Documentation/modules.txt.
+
+  If you don't know what a parallel link cable is or what a Texas
+  Instruments graphing calculator is, then you probably don't need this
+  driver.
+
+  If unsure, say N.
+
 CONFIG_BUSMOUSE
   Say Y here if your machine has a bus mouse as opposed to a serial
   mouse. Most people have a regular serial MouseSystem or
drivers/char/Config.in +1 -0
@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@
       bool '  Support for console on line printer' CONFIG_LP_CONSOLE
    fi
    dep_tristate 'Support for user-space parallel port device drivers' CONFIG_PPDEV $CONFIG_PARPORT
+   dep_tristate 'Texas Instruments parallel link cable support' CONFIG_TIPAR $CONFIG_PARPORT
 fi
 
 source drivers/i2c/Config.in
drivers/char/Makefile +1 -0
@@ -208,6 +208,7 @@
 obj-$(CONFIG_DZ) += dz.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_NWBUTTON) += nwbutton.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_NWFLASH) += nwflash.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_TIPAR) += tipar.o
 
 # Only one watchdog can succeed. We probe the hardware watchdog
 # drivers first, then the softdog driver.  This means if your hardware
drivers/char/tipar.c +519 -0

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