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authorShaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>2006-09-27 04:50:52 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-09-27 11:26:18 -0400
commita30a6a2cb0fdc2c9701d6ddfb21affeb8146c038 (patch)
tree72502de7266fbed2e4791cc162ef7607710f7cd0 /drivers/base
parent9a3110bf4bb0466b43b898533bfd4952001bc38f (diff)
[PATCH] x86 microcode: using request_firmware to pull microcode
Using request_firmware to pull ucode from userspace, so we don't need the application 'microcode_ctl' to assist. We name each ucode file according to CPU's info as intel-ucode/family-model-stepping. In this way we could split ucode file as small one. This has a lot of advantages such as selectively update and validate microcode for specific models, better manage microcode file, easily write tools for administerators and so on. with the changes, we should put all intel-ucode/xx-xx-xx microcode files into the firmware dir (I had a tool to split previous big data file into small one and later we will release new style data file). The init script should be changed to just loading the driver without unloading Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Acked-by: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base')
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/firmware_class.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
index 5d6c011183f5..77bf8826e2f9 100644
--- a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
+++ b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
@@ -602,7 +602,7 @@ firmware_class_exit(void)
602 class_unregister(&firmware_class); 602 class_unregister(&firmware_class);
603} 603}
604 604
605module_init(firmware_class_init); 605fs_initcall(firmware_class_init);
606module_exit(firmware_class_exit); 606module_exit(firmware_class_exit);
607 607
608EXPORT_SYMBOL(release_firmware); 608EXPORT_SYMBOL(release_firmware);