2015-05-12 9:47 GMT-06:00 Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferro...@gmail.com>: > On 2015-05-12 11:25, Arjan van de Ven wrote: >> If you look at a modern linux distro, nothing should need/use iopl and >> co anymore, so maybe an interesting >> question is if we can stick these behind a CONFIG_ option (default on >> of course for compatibility)... just like >> some of the /dev/mem like things are now hidable for folks who know >> they don't need them. > > Personally, I _really_ like this idea. The only thing I know of on any > modern distro that even considers using ioperm is hwclock, and it only does > so if it can't access the RTC through other means (and if you have an RTC, > you really should have the /dev interface enabled).
Removing iopl might be OK. Removing ioperm would break my use case of legacy code that needs direct access to the parallel port. -Alex -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
