From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 23 May 2002 17:29:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 23 May 2002 17:29:28 -0400 Received: from nat-pool-rdu.redhat.com ([66.187.233.200]:2805 "EHLO devserv.devel.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 23 May 2002 17:29:28 -0400 Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 17:29:27 -0400 From: Pete Zaitcev To: Martin Dalecki Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.17 /dev/ports Message-ID: <20020523172927.A12899@devserv.devel.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <3CED438B.6090906@evision-ventures.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 21:31:23 +0200 > From: Martin Dalecki > Slow controll means in experimental physics - controll of > devices which don't have hard real time constrains. >[...] > I assume that this kind of application is what Pete was > talking about as he was speaking about "quite frequently" > and finally "Solaris does without it so we could as well". I used it for I2C on VGA cards and different ISA devices, and flash programming. Remember that though ISA went away on desktop, embedded people still use it. It was just FYI - if you persuade Linus to strike /dev/port down, I am not going to shed many tears, only a little :) It may be different for users of languages other than C, but let them defend themselves. -- Pete