tag 263756 fixed-upstream
thanks
> > > I propose to replace the text of the relevent paragraph (CONFORMING
> > > TO) with:
> > >
> > > outb and friends are hardware specific. The value argument is
> > > passed secand and the port argument is passed first, which
> > > is the opposite order from most DOS implementations.
> > >
> > > (as per: /usr/include/asm/io.h)
> >
> > Hi Justin,
> >
> > I do not really know the answer on this point, but how do
> > you deduce this order from that header file?
> >
> > Some grepping of kernel sources seems to indicate to me that
> > the order is outb(value, port). Also in /usr/include/sys/io.h
> > I see:
> >
> > static __inline void
> > outb (unsigned char value, unsigned short int port)
> You are right, and I suppose that is what I was thinking. Here is a
> line of code that I used 2 years ago:
>
> outb(byte, port);
>
> That should answer that ..
> Thanks for being critical,
No problem -- I'd looked at that bug for a while, and your patch
helped push things in the right direction.
The following text will appear with the man-pages-2.08 release:
The value argument is passed first and the port
argument is passed second, which is the opposite
order from most DOS implementations.
Cheers,
Michael
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