If you're integrating drivers that aren't in the kernel tree, you can and
should patch the CML2 rulebase to compensate. So your patch for
the modified driver should comment out the PARPORT_PC==PARPORT
requirement. Problem solved.
More generally, arguments of the form "Non-mainline custom hack X
could invalidate constraint Y, therefore we can't have Y in the
rulebase" are dangerous -- I suspect you could reduce your set of
constraints to nil very quickly that way, and thus badly screw over
the 99% of people who just want to build a more or less stock kernel.
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