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Hi,

On Friday 01 October 2004 14:43, Rene Wagner wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 22:30, Joris Robijn wrote:
> > I think HD44780 is not compiled in with -enable-drivers=all. This is
> > because parallel port is not supported on all platforms.
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> --enable-drivers=all does indeed include hd44780. The driver is however
> skipped if no parallel port support is detected.
hmmm, one of my drivers for USB devices is realized as a ConnectionType
to the hd44780 driver.
It was the original author's decision to do so. IMHO the main reason for this
decision was the simplicity of the ConnectionType sub-driver API in the
hd44780 driver.

But if hd44780 gets skipped if there is no parallel port the ConnectionType
sub-driver does not get built also even if it does not need a parallel port.

How to solve the problem ?
* Recode as a spearate driver ?
* Make the build system check for the parallal port or USB ?

I'd prefer the former solution since it separates the drivers cleanly.
The drawback is that this solution doubles quit a bit of code (especially the
user defined character stuff) - but maybe that is a problem that can be
solved later by refactoring these things into their own files.

Alternatives, ideas, suggestions ?

Peter

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Peter Marschall
eMail:
peter AT adpm.de

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• [Lcdproc] HD44780 trouble, Rene Wagner, 10/01/2004
  • [Lcdproc] HD44780 trouble, Peter Marschall, 10/01/2004
    • [Lcdproc] HD44780 trouble, Joris Robijn, 10/01/2004
      • [Lcdproc] HD44780 trouble, Peter Marschall, 10/01/2004

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