From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Haren Myneni <haren@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, anton@samba.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disable /dev/port interface on powerpc systems
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 07:48:19 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1332362899.2982.40.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1332356284.13004.9.camel@hbabu-laptop>
On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 11:58 -0700, Haren Myneni wrote:
>
> Yes, can be changed open or read/write calls and return -ENODEV,
> but /dev/port is no use on these systems.
>
> I am not sure whether any power systems have legacy ISA devices. If we
> do not have, CONFIG_DEVPORT can be disabled in Kconfig.
Dome do, older ones mostly.
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-21 20:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-21 5:37 [PATCH] Disable /dev/port interface on powerpc systems Haren Myneni
2012-03-21 7:23 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-03-21 18:58 ` Haren Myneni
2012-03-21 20:48 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2012-03-24 8:23 ` Haren Myneni
2012-06-08 2:00 ` Michael Ellerman
2012-04-30 5:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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2012-06-16 6:42 Haren Myneni
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