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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patches for device names
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:22:35 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48A3266B.1040201@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1218648175.6882.63.camel@quest>

Greg KH wrote:
> 
> So the kernel should cache this information?  That's a mess, why do that
> when userspace already has this mapping (udevinfo provides it).  We
> already have a mapping from device major/minor already in sysfs as well.
> 
> So why would the kernel need to care about this?
> 

Fair enough.

Now, calling udevinfo is quite expensive; is this information available 
through a programmatic API?

	-hpa

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-08-13 18:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-13 17:22 Patches for device names Scott James Remnant
2008-08-13 17:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-13 17:49 ` Greg KH
2008-08-13 17:50 ` Greg KH
2008-08-13 17:57 ` Scott James Remnant
2008-08-13 18:02 ` Scott James Remnant
2008-08-13 18:16 ` Greg KH
2008-08-13 18:22 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-08-13 18:33 ` Scott James Remnant
2008-08-13 18:38 ` David Zeuthen
2008-08-13 18:52 ` Kay Sievers
2008-08-13 18:54 ` Kay Sievers
2008-08-13 19:33 ` Scott James Remnant
2008-08-13 20:00 ` H. Peter Anvin

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