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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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In-Reply-To: <20030327233050.GD16251@suse.de>; from davej@codemonkey.org.uk on Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:30:50PM +0000
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On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:30:50PM +0000, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 02:54:40PM +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.