Re: [PATCH] 2.5.17 /dev/ports

[Alan Cox]

>    From: Paul Mackerras <[e-mail]>
>    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.

ALan