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From: Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: /sbin/hotplug invocation for USB devices in 2.5.40
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 17:49:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-103409948604589@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-hotplug-103406277101783@msgid-missing>


> > Now I know this overloads the existing DEVICE usage for USB devices, but
> > I think we can determine what do properly (basically just test for
> > DEVFS, and if it's not set, then we are looking at the driverfs entry
> > for the device.)
> 
> I'd rather see these changes:
> 
>    - This new parameter to every (!!) hotplug event gets renamed to
>      KFS_DEVICE (assuming that's the new driverfs name).

What about DEVPATH, since that's what it is, right?

> By the way, what's the cost of a driverfs attribute on a 'struct device'?
> Each USB device now has over a dozen of them.

32 bytes/attribute + size of the function. But, attributes are reused 
across devices, so the total data cost is 32 x ~16 = 512. 

	-pat



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-10-08 17:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-08  7:32 /sbin/hotplug invocation for USB devices in 2.5.40 Greg KH
2002-10-08 17:02 ` David Brownell
2002-10-08 17:49 ` Patrick Mochel [this message]
2002-10-08 17:55 ` Oliver Neukum
2002-10-08 18:14 ` David Brownell
2002-10-08 18:18 ` Oliver Neukum
2002-10-08 18:18 ` Greg KH
2002-10-08 18:25 ` Greg KH
2002-10-08 21:00 ` David Brownell
2002-10-08 21:17 ` Greg KH
2002-10-08 21:18 ` David Brownell
2002-10-08 21:28 ` David Brownell
2002-10-08 21:39 ` Greg KH
2002-10-09 15:15 ` David Brownell
2002-10-10 20:35 ` Greg KH

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