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Subject: Re: [PATCH] don't create regular files in devfs (fwd)
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
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To: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>
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On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 17:32, Tigran Aivazian wrote:

> If you move it all the way to sysfs (i.e. no device node in /dev) then it
> seems a bit odd that a device driver entry point is found somewhere other
> than the usual /dev.

well

cat firmware > /sys/processor/0/microcode

is obviously the ultimate interface for this ;)

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