From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261757AbTJHTnb (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Oct 2003 15:43:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261758AbTJHTnb (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Oct 2003 15:43:31 -0400 Received: from mail.jlokier.co.uk ([81.29.64.88]:37258 "EHLO mail.shareable.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261757AbTJHTna (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Oct 2003 15:43:30 -0400 Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 20:43:17 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier To: Tigran Aivazian Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFC: changes to microcode update driver. Message-ID: <20031008194317.GA15832@mail.shareable.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Tigran Aivazian wrote: > 1. Remove ->read() method for /dev/cpu/microcode device node and do not > hold a copy of applied microcode chunks in kernel memory. In the days when > we had a regular devfs file with a non-zero size this had at least some > potential use but now this feature is almost useless and removing it would > allow a lot of code cleanup and simplification. It would be nice to record the MD5 or SHA checksum of the loaded microcode, so it's possible to check which one was loaded. -- Jamie