On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 01:36:51PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Randy Dunlap wrote: >>> >>> Come on people, adding symlinks for device major:minor numbers in sysfs >>> to save a few 10s of lines of userspace code? Can things get sillier? >>> >>> You can add a single udev rule to probably build these in a tree in /dev >>> if you really need such a thing... >>> >>> And what's wrong with your new ioctl recomendation? >> Ah, there's some sanity. :) > > It's not so much an issue of a few tens of lines of user space code, but > rather the fact that something that should be O(1) is currently O(n). "should"? why? Is this some new requirement that everyone needs? I've _never_ seen anyone ask for the ability to find sysfs devices by major:minor number in O(1) time. Is this somehow a place where such optimization is warranted? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
