Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Mar 2003 11:11:17 +0000 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.66 buglet |
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On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 08:26:07AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > + error = devfs_mk_symlink("cpu/microcode", "../misc/microcode"); > > Where did ../misc/microcode come from? That sounds horribly > > generic compared to /dev/cpu/microcode > > devfs automatically registers /dev/misc/<name> entries for any minor > registered by misc_register.
That's pretty fucked up IMO. Is it feasable that we could one day have /dev/$otherhardware/microcode, and that would completely screw up this devfs 'feature' ?
Dave
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