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Hi guys, It's been a long time that I was going to send to Linux the patch with the following changes, but the birth of my first child intervened and caused delays (though can't call them "unexpected" :). Now, if I hear from people "no, no! we are using this feature!" then I will reconsider: 1. Remove ->read() method for /dev/cpu/microcode device node and do not hold a copy of applied microcode chunks in kernel memory. In the days when we had a regular devfs file with a non-zero size this had at least some potential use but now this feature is almost useless and removing it would allow a lot of code cleanup and simplification. 2. remove MICROCODE_IOCFREE ioctl for freeing the copy of held microcode (because there won't be such copy, see 1.) Please let me know your thoughts. Kind regards Tigran - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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