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Subject: Re: [RFC 0/6] Backing Store for sysfs
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Greg KH wrote:

> 
> That's good.  But what happens after you run a find over the sysfs tree?
> Which is essencially what udev will be doing :)
> 

This sounds like an opportunity to improve the udev<->sysfs 
interaction. Does the hotplug event not give udev enough information 
to avoid this "find" search?