Bug 10928

Summary:	Missing support for SCSI over Parallel Port
Product:	Drivers	Reporter:	Matthew Schultz (mattsch)
Component:	Parallel	Assignee:	drivers_parallel
Status:	RESOLVED WILL_NOT_FIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	alan, devzero, greg
Priority:	P1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	2.6.25	Subsystem:
Regression:	No	Bisected commit-id:

Description Matthew Schultz 2008-06-16 11:32:19 UTC

I have an HP ScanJet 5100C scanner which uses the SCSI protocol over a parallel port but the kernel does not have native support for this.  Could you bring in support for the ppscsi package or just implement support for SCSI over parallel into the mainline kernel?

http://penguin-breeder.org/kernel/download/

Patches which allow the module to insert up to 2.6.24:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119196

Comment 1 Roland Kletzing 2008-06-22 04:54:13 UTC

do you now if there is a current/unofficial maintainer?

these seem the original authors:
http://people.redhat.com/twaugh/parport/   http://cyberelk.net/tim/parport/ppscsi.html

it`s already mentioned on http://www.linuxdriverproject.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/OutOfTreeDrivers
(good!)

if not on lkml or linux-parport ml, maybe devel@linuxdriverproject.org ( http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/pipermail/devel/ ) is a good place for discussion. maybe there are some volunteers for cleaning it up and pushing that upstream.

Comment 2 Alan 2008-09-23 03:31:45 UTC

Adding Greg in case its interesting to any of his driver merging crew

Comment 3 Alan 2009-03-26 17:33:44 UTC

Closing as WONTFIX - essentially if you want it you need to become maintainer and updater of that code