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From:   "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: Please stop using iopl() in DPDK
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On Fri, 25 Oct 2019, Andy Lutomirski wrote:

> > I'd see an API more or less like this :
> >
> >   int ioport(int op, u16 port, long val, long *ret);
> 
> Hmm.  I have some memory of a /dev/ioport or similar, but now I can't
> find it.  It does seem quite reasonable.

crw-r----- 1 root kmem 1, 4 Sep  9 13:58 /dev/port

  Maciej