Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: [patch-2.3.46-p2] P6 microcode update support | Date | 16 Feb 2000 21:43:19 -0800 |
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Followup to: <200002162304.KAA05769@mobilix.atnf.CSIRO.AU> By author: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > c) whether kernel has update support or not is determined by whether > > the minor=184 is accessible (perhaps by loading a driver) or not. > > /proc does not make things much easier. > > It's much friendlier to the sysadmin or script writer to list the > directory or test for the file than to do a speculative open. I don't > know of a standard programme (say part of shell utils) that does this. >
Isn't that how devfs expects to do module autoloading?
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