Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 24 May 2003 19:03:29 +0100 (BST) | From | James Simmons <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] make vt_ioctl ix86isms explicit |
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> > sys_ioperm is only implemented on x86 (i386/x86_64). Make the > > ifdefs in vt_ioctl.c more explicit so the other architectures can > > get rid of their stubs in favour of just using sys_ni_syscall in > > the syscall table. (Personally I still wonder why they added it > > at all but that's another question..) > > They were added because this was how the X server got IO permissions a > million years ago. It comes from some random old UNIX/386 thing, it > predates Linux itself as far as I know. > > I'm fairly certain that X itself no longer uses it at all, but there may > be other programs that still do (unlikely). Your patch looks sane, > although it might be equally sane to just remove the code altogether.
I suggest we remove it. It was the old way to access the VGA register ports.
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