From: olof@lixom•net (Olof Johansson)
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead•org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org, cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Implement check_legacy_ioport() on PS3
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:45:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070330014542.GA28342@lixom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1175212972.3122.87.camel@pmac.infradead.org>
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 01:02:52AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> It doesn't like it when we poke at legacy I/O ports like the i8042. We
> should probably change the _default_ to return -ENODEV, and let any
> strange platform which wants to allow unfettered access provide its own
> function for that.
I ran into the very same thing earlier myself and had exactly the same
idea. However, it turned out then that it would have meant adding more
cases of ioport being allowed than it would have removed the opposite. It
might have changed since then. Either way it's annoying.
-Olof
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-30 1:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-30 0:02 [PATCH] Implement check_legacy_ioport() on PS3 David Woodhouse
2007-03-30 1:45 ` Olof Johansson [this message]
2007-03-30 1:43 ` David Woodhouse
2007-03-30 1:43 ` [Cbe-oss-dev] " Michael Ellerman
2007-03-30 1:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-03-30 1:49 ` David Woodhouse
2007-03-30 1:45 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-03-30 13:44 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-04-06 21:32 ` Geoff Levand
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