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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] 2.5.17 /dev/ports
    On Wed, 22 May 2002, Martin Dalecki wrote:

    > Uz.ytkownik Russell King napisa?:
    > > On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 12:13:05PM +0200, Martin Dalecki wrote:
    > >
    > >>And now I'm just eagerly awaiting the first clueless
    > >>l^Huser lurking on this list, who will flame me as usuall...
    > >>But that's no problem - I got already used to it :-).
    > >
    > >
    > > I'm waiting on Phil Blundell to notice - I think /dev/port may get used
    > > on ARM to emulate inb() and outb() from userspace; I don't look after
    > > glibc so shrug.
    > >
    > > I agree however that /dev/port is a rotten interface that needs to go.
    > >
    >
    > Hmm still not flames? Do they all sleep right now?
    >
    > - Should I perhaps tell what I think about the glibc bloat^W coding style?
    >
    > - Should I perhaps tell how "usefull" the GNU extensions to the POSIX
    > standards in question are?
    >
    > - Or a side note about RH's slang and popt and other useless "required"
    > shared libraries?
    >
    > - Is there maybe some Python module using /dev/port for precisely
    > the purpose you mention. (This is actually a good candidate.)
    >
    > Anyway, dear Russell (plese note the double ll!):
    >
    > [root@kozaczek glibc-2.2.5]# find ./ -name "*.[ch]" -exec grep \/dev\/port
    > /dev/null {} \;
    > [root@kozaczek glibc-2.2.5]#
    >
    > [root@kozaczek glibc-2.2.5]# find ./ -name "*.[ch]" -exec grep \"port\"
    > /dev/null {} \;
    > ./hesiod/nss_hesiod/hesiod-service.c: return lookup (portstr, "port", protocol,
    > serv, buffer, buflen, errnop);
    > [root@kozaczek glibc-2.2.5]#
    > [root@kozaczek glibc-2.2.5]# find ./ -name "*.[ch]" -exec grep outb\( /dev/null
    > {} \;
    > [root@kozaczek glibc-2.2.5]#
    >
    > So I rather think that glibc may be bloated but it's not idiotic and
    > we have nothing to fear from it ;-)... well this time at least...
    > As far as I know (and I know little about ARM). It would be anwyay
    > unnatural to use /dev/port for the purpose you mention.
    > ARM io space is memmory mapped, so if any file you would
    > rather use /dev/kmem...
    >
    > Still no flames? This silence makes me suspicious....
    >

    Yawn...


    Cheers,
    Dick Johnson

    Penguin : Linux version 2.4.18 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).

    Windows-2000/Professional isn't.

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