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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: RFC: being more anal about iospace accesses..
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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>, Linux Arch list <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>, Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> What are sane rules?

I'd err on the side of "simple and tough to screw up" :)

What rules are most beneficial to the likely users of this API?

	Jeff