Ping Marcel Telka: time for an updated ioperm package? [was RE: brltty and libusb package ?]

[Dave Korn]

[  Nobody expects the Spanish unTITTTLquisition!  ]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Nov  2 14:20, Dave Korn wrote:
>> /* workaround for bug 666316 and bug 671964 */
>> #undef IoGetCurrentIrpStackLocation
>> #define	IoGetCurrentIrpStackLocation(irp) (*(struct
>> _IO_STACK_LOCATION**)((char*)(irp) + 96))
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>     >>>***AAAAAAAAUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHHHSCREAM***<<<
>> 
>> 
>>   That's about the most terrifying thing I've ever seen in a kernel-mode
>> driver. 
>> 
>> [  It's also been removed in upstream for about two years now.....  ]
> 
> So, maybe you want move this to cygwin-apps so that Marcel gets this too?
> 
> 
> Corinna



  Yeah, s'pose it would be the right place actually!

  Hello Marcel if you're listening! :)  The bug in w32api/ntddk headers that
this was to work-around is long fixed, it's now safe to delete that horrible
kludge (and in fact a whole lot safer than leaving a hard-coded constant!)
  
    cheers,
      DaveK
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