Hi Alan, I sent this one-liner to Linus ages ago but he didn't notice it. The bug is obvious -- the goal of microcode_init() is to succeed at least in one of either devfs or misc registration. Regards, Tigran --- linux/arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c Mon Dec 11 21:42:08 2000 +++ work/arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c Wed Jan 3 12:13:27 2001 @@ -126,6 +126,7 @@ printk(KERN_ERR "microcode: failed to devfs_register()\n"); goto out; } + error = 0; printk(KERN_INFO "IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v%s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>\n", MICROCODE_VERSION); - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/