Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763690AbXFROHO (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:07:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762669AbXFROHD (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:07:03 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.174]:59818 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762614AbXFROHB (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:07:01 -0400 From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> Subject: Re: man-pages-2.57 is released To: Michael Kerrisk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org Reply-To: 7eggert@gmx.de Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:06:36 +0200 References: <8x3Cc-1LD-13@gated-at.bofh.it> User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Message-Id: X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-Information: See www.mailscanner.info for information X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-From: 7eggert@gmx.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX183CHhdd+Q2A6JCxIOTRLpoOaCLYDpkqQ3yDxo if/0Ix7+5Af+2mTWHytwSsYkwgQcmdrM+a39CX5j1w1PLEJ5G1 rF00kQ+UYcmBCgInrO3gA== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1354 Lines: 28 Michael Kerrisk wrote: > ./man2/ioperm.2 > FIXME is the following ("Only the first 0x3ff I/O ports can be > specified in this manner") still true? Looking at changes in > include/asm-i386/processor.h between 2.4 and 2.6 suggests > that the limit is different in 2.6. You now have the full 64Kb port bitmap (8 KB). BTW1: linux/arch/i386/kernel/ioport.c still states having 8K of bitmaps to be excessive (and implicitely and now wrongly as not being done). Since there should only be few processes requiring iopl, the 8K should not be excessive. We need a native speaker to change this text, at least not me right now. CC Linus, because he admitted fiddeling with this file. (No MAINTAINER found) BTW2: My (possibly outdated) iopl manpage states that you'll need to be root change the iopl, but you only need CAP_SYS_RAWIO in order to increase the iopl. -- Have you ever noticed that the Klingons are all speaking unix? "Grep ls awk chmod." "Mknod ksh tar imap." "Wall fsck yacc!" (that last is obviously a curse of some sort) -- Gandalf Parker - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/