On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:06:24 +1030 David Newall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This use of port 80 (or insert some other random number) is a croc of > hackery of the most inexperienced kind. Wrong. It's a careful designed solution used by all sorts of code for over 15 years. The task to be performed is to delay for some period Wrong, it is for some number of bus clocks which is why I/O cycles are used > that an OUT is used because you don't know how long the delay should be > on any specific machine. What rubbish. Wrong again. > I won't even mention the many instances of these delays where no delay > is what properly is needed. Performance? Who cares about performance? Correctness, who needs correctness ? Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
