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
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