Linux-kernel mailing list archive 2000-07,: Re: [patch-2.3.46-p3] /proc/driver/microcode P6 ucode support

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

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Wed, 16 Feb 2000 22:14:22 -0500 (EST)

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On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:

> <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>

You see, Richard, there is a tiny problem. Many people will _really_ want
to configure DEVFS out of their kernels. Procfs is much more conservative
wrt dcache...

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