Re: [patch-2.3.46-p3] /proc/driver/microcode P6 ucode support

[Richard Gooch]

Tigran Aivazian writes:
> Hi Linus,
> 
> Here is the implementation of your idea. I shouldn't have moaned at you -
> I thought it will be an hour of work but it was 5 minutes instead - the
> rest of the time was just testing.
> 
> I still like the old /dev/microcode patch because it was autoloading
> on demand. With /proc/driver/microcode compiled as module one has to
> insmod it before running mcode utility.

Devfs gives you autoloading as well. Procfs doesn't.

<broken record>
The longer it takes for devfs to go into the kernel, the more people
will throw things into procfs, with all the problems that implies.
Hell, I did it myself with MTRR.
</broken record>

				Regards,

					Richard....
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