PCIe - No parport registered at "0x " . This is not Always an error.Continuing.

6 AM, Tom   The sun is still sleeping.

Rob, great projects you've been working on! One day I will get there.

Guys, I will be right back in one or two days. I need to assist a client "two europe diameters" away from my place.

See you!

Rather than a pop-up error message, it seems this would better be just a message
in the log, so if you are trying to debug a parallel port issue, you get notified, but you don't
have a constant nuisance alarm when things are OK.

I wasn't aware any log even existed.

Don't rely on logs, they are too often ignored and forgotten.

Prompts are good, but annoying.

Maybe the prompt could have a checkbox for "suppress this warning forever"

Maybe stepconf should just have a little checkbox that says "notify user if port not detected".

A switch when loading the driver regarding the message, have the message on for debugging and another to just log the message ?

Honestly, as I said in my first post is it that hard to click on the message or just leave it popped up ?

It gets annoying after the umpteenth time.

It's just a nuisance.

Like mosquitoes (where I live there's no malaria).

That's the go.

I have one more question about this issue recognizing Sunix cards.

So, let's assume these cards are not being automatically recognized as parallel ports because they are not listed as such in kernel.

How is this information stored in kernel? Is it hardcoded?

I know this isn't a issue that deservs so much talk, but if all it takes is someone to code it and ask a pull request to kernel I would love to do this work.

There are also some cards that load parport_serial driver instead of parport_pc. If this is the case I think that would be a coding I could do.

Again, not a big of a deal, but I would like to help and this seem to match my skills.