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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it
Subject: Re: soft disable of peripherals ?
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>I think it would be useful to have a general mechanism which could
>temporarily disable/reenable a given I/O port. As a minimum, it

It should be part of preparing an lkm driver for unloading.

Bruce