You could start by reading http://marc.info/?t=122516333900004&r=1&w=2
which will bring you up to speed on all the previous discussion around
this topic ;-)
Hi Matthew,
Thanks for the pointer. I read (and re-read) the discussion around this
and see several obvious problems with my proposal. I see where Vinnie
(who is no longer with SGI AFAICT) has done a lot of work getting his
patch ready.
The above thread was left with the following comments:
Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > So I have a counter-proposal. It's a bit of work though.
> >
> > If we give sysfs_dir_operations an open and a release method, we could
> > construct directories on the fly. I don't think we'd want to do this
> > for all sysfs directories necessarily, but for special cases like this
> > where we have a large number of files, know there can't be duplicates,
> > and can construct the files in the directory very quickly, I think it
> > could be a big win.
>
> I don't think it's worth the complexity, but feel free to prove me wrong
> with a patch that shows otherwise :)
All righty.
I'm sorry, but I'm having trouble understanding your last comment "All
righty.". Are you agreeing with Greg's comment, or disagreeing with it?
Thanks,
P.
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