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Subject: Re: outb.2: What to do with prototypes?
From:   "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
To:     "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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On 2/4/21 1:59 PM, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> What would you do with the prototypes in outb.2?
> They are different in glibc and the kernel.
> However, since these are functions to be called mostly withing the
> kernel, the kernel prototype is more important.  Would you use the glibc
> one in SYNOPSIS, and then a C library / kernel differences with the
> kernel prototypes?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Alex
> 

BTW, the declarations of those functions in the kernel are a bit
different from the rest.  My grep_syscall function couldn't find them.
There's no sys_inb, nor does it use SYSCALL_DEFINE?().

There are a lot of different declarations like plain 'inb' (some static,
some extern).  Where is the actual syscall defined?

Thanks,

Alex

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Alejandro Colomar
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