On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:58:42 +0100 Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:42:03 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > > Maybe Christian's patch can be improved to not do the check on > > > these? As long as /dev/port exists, it seems reasonable that the > > > kernel should behave, no matter what I/O ports are accessed from > > > user-space. > > > > nonsense. > > > > /dev/mem exists for example, but you are still not supposed to go > > bang all over the place in it. > > You should at least be able to read from it without crashing the > machine. Of course writing is a different story. keep dreaming. This is not how /dev/mem works today, not on x86 and very likely not on ppc either. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
