Re: 2.5.66 buglet

From: Dave Jones (davej@codemonkey.org.uk)
Date: Fri Mar 28 2003 - 06:11:17 EST


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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