From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 16:12:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 16:11:56 -0500 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:31757 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 16:10:39 -0500 Message-ID: <3C38BD32.6000900@zytor.com> Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2002 13:10:10 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011120 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, sv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Gooch CC: Matt Dainty , linux-kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] DevFS support for /dev/cpu/X/(cpuid|msr) In-Reply-To: <20020106181749.A714@butterlicious.bodgit-n-scarper.com> <200201061934.g06JYnZ15633@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> <3C38BC6B.7090301@zytor.com> <200201062108.g06L8lM17189@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Richard Gooch wrote: > H. Peter Anvin writes: > >>Once again, this shit does not belong in N drivers; it is core code. >> > > Drivers have to register their own device nodes. What kind of API do > you propose? > The existence of a CPU creates /dev/cpu/# and registering a node replicates across the /dev/cpu directories. -hpa