From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> To: Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.17 /dev/ports Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 09:28:03 -0700 (PDT) Cc: Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> On Wed, 22 May 2002, Martin Dalecki wrote: > > Remove support for /dev/port altogether. Yes, I don't think it has actually ever been used. It was done purely because Minix did it that way, and it wasn't even compatible with Minix (I think Minix actually supoorted 2- and 4-byte accesses by just doign 2- and 4-byte read/write calls, the Linux code never did). Everybody always used the iobitmap/iopl interfaces under Linux as far as I know. Anybody: if you've ever used /dev/ports, holler _now_. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/