From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] don't create regular files in devfs (fwd)
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 11:31:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030114113135.A14279@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0301140932210.1110-100000@einstein31.homenet>; from tigran@veritas.com on Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 09:34:52AM +0000
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 09:34:52AM +0000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> Hi Christoph,
>
> I don't know about mtrr (probably does it for the same reason) but the
> reason why microcode driver uses a regular file is because it needs
> something that only regular files can provide --- the file size.
>
> This is an easy external "signifier" as to whether a successfull microcode
> update has occurred or not.
It seems to work without that feature on systems that don't have devfs..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-14 10:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301131851060.9994-100000@localhost.localdomain>
2003-01-14 9:34 ` [PATCH] don't create regular files in devfs (fwd) Tigran Aivazian
2003-01-14 10:31 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-01-14 11:48 ` Tigran Aivazian
2003-01-14 11:54 ` Tigran Aivazian
2003-01-14 12:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-01-14 16:32 ` Tigran Aivazian
2003-01-14 16:50 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-01-14 15:59 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-01-14 17:31 ` Tigran Aivazian
2003-01-14 17:29 ` Tigran Aivazian
2003-01-14 17:40 ` Dave Jones
2003-01-24 6:19 ` Tigran Aivazian
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