Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: [patch-2.3.47] microcode trimming support (+cleanup) | Date | 21 Feb 2000 15:28:04 -0800 |
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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10002212230520.730-100000@saturn.homenet> By author: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Hi Linus, > > This patch improves /proc/driver/microcode to allow to clear and free the > memory used by the saved copy of the microcode by doing something like: > > # > /proc/driver/microcode > > (or generally by opening it with O_WRONLY). This saves a page per CPU > pair and makes some security-conscious humans happy... > > Also some minor cleanups in BFS and a typo in mtrr.c >
Please nuke this from /proc. It has no business in /proc; it should be in /dev. Let's not turn procfs into a devfs wannabe; it has all the problems of devfs but much more severely.
-hpa -- <hpa@transmeta.com> at work, <hpa@zytor.com> in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot."
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