Re: [PATCH] don't create regular files in devfs (fwd)

Patrick Mochel (mochel@osdl.org)
Tue, 14 Jan 2003 09:59:31 -0600 (CST)


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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