The msr driver doesn't support devfs at all, and nor
does cpuid come to that. However, microcode creates a
miscellaneous character device, number (10,184), in
the /dev/misc directory. This is why the regular
/dev/cpu/microcode file is so mysterious...
Chris
--- Ben Clifford <benc@hawaga.org.uk> wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Chris Rankin wrote:
>
> > Am I missing something rather obvious, or is the
> /dev/cpu/microcode
> > device being mis-created under devfs with Linux
> 2.4.x? I have enclosed
> > a patch to ensure that the character device really
> *is* a character
> > device.
>
> On my system, running 2.4.16, I get no devfs entry
> for that or msr at all.
> I just get the mtrr entry.
>
> This is with microcode and msr loaded as modules.
>
> --
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