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SubjectRe: [patch-2.3.46-p2] P6 microcode update support
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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?

-hpa
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