From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 22 May 2002 09:42:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 22 May 2002 09:42:13 -0400 Received: from [195.63.194.11] ([195.63.194.11]:54286 "EHLO mail.stock-world.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 22 May 2002 09:42:12 -0400 Message-ID: <3CEB9157.2080308@evision-ventures.com> Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 14:38:47 +0200 From: Martin Dalecki User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pl-PL; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020419 X-Accept-Language: en-us, pl MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: "David S. Miller" , paulus@samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.17 /dev/ports In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Uz.ytkownik Alan Cox napisa?: >> From: Paul Mackerras >> Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 20:42:47 +1000 (EST) >> >> Martin Dalecki writes: >> >> > Remove support for /dev/port altogether. >> >> Great idea! >> >>You have my blessing too :-) > > > I'd rather you didn't break too much application code. How do you think the > perl people and the python folks do hardware control ? Or for that matter > java people trying to avoid the crawling horrors of JNI. Its also used by > libraries like libieee1284. Clock(8) uses it on some systems if the > /dev/rtc isn't available or built in. > > Xfree86 much to my suprise seems completely clean. Non Linux stuff uses it > extensively but not Linux. The Xfree86 people are actually sane and hold up the BSD tradition. They don't even use /proc/bus and killed early /proc/agpgart usage! Quite the reverse is true.