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SubjectRe: [PATCH] 2.5.17 /dev/ports


On Wed, 22 May 2002, Martin Dalecki wrote:
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> Remove support for /dev/port altogether.

Yes, I don't think it has actually ever been used.

It was done purely because Minix did it that way, and it wasn't even
compatible with Minix (I think Minix actually supoorted 2- and 4-byte
accesses by just doign 2- and 4-byte read/write calls, the Linux code
never did).

Everybody always used the iobitmap/iopl interfaces under Linux as far as I
know.

Anybody: if you've ever used /dev/ports, holler _now_.

Linus

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