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Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 09:59:31 -0600 (CST)
From: Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] don't create regular files in devfs (fwd)
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On 14 Jan 2003, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> 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

Out of curiosity, how large are the microcode updates? Or rather, what is 
the range of sizes that you've seen?


	-pat

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