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From: Chris Rankin <rankincj@yahoo.com>
To: tigran@veritas.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Linux IA32 microcode driver
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 12:58:18 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200112221258.fBMCwIVl005421@twopit.underworld> (raw)

Hi,

Am I missing something rather obvious, or is the /dev/cpu/microcode
device being mis-created under devfs with Linux 2.4.x? I have enclosed
a patch to ensure that the character device really *is* a character
device.

Cheers,
Chris

--- linux-2.4.17/arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c.orig	Sat Dec 22 12:37:07 2001
+++ linux-2.4.17/arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c	Sat Dec 22 12:43:10 2001
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@
 			MICROCODE_MINOR);
 
 	devfs_handle = devfs_register(NULL, "cpu/microcode",
-			DEVFS_FL_DEFAULT, 0, 0, S_IFREG | S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR, 
+			DEVFS_FL_DEFAULT, 0, 0, S_IFCHR | S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR, 
 			&microcode_fops, NULL);
 	if (devfs_handle == NULL && error) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR "microcode: failed to devfs_register()\n");

             reply	other threads:[~2001-12-22 12:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-22 12:58 Chris Rankin [this message]
2001-12-22 18:53 ` Ben Clifford
2001-12-23  1:38   ` Chris Rankin
2001-12-23  9:34 ` Tigran Aivazian

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