Re: Patches for device names

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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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