Re: [PATCH] x86: provide a DMI based port 0x80 I/O delay override

[Ingo Molnar]

* Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:

> > well, using io_delay=udelay is not 'blindly disabling'. 
> > io_delay=none would be the end goal, once all _p() API uses are 
> > eliminated by transformation. In drivers/ alone that's more than 
> > 1000 callsites, so it's quite frequently used, and wont go away 
> > overnight.
> 
> IOW elimination of broken inb_p()/outb_p() interfaces is the ultimate 
> goal. Agreed.

yeah - although i'd not call it "broken", it's simply historic, and due 
to the side-effects of the _implementation_, a few non-standard uses 
(such as reliance on PCI posting/flushing effects) grew.

	Ingo
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