Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:36:51 -0700 | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | | Subject | Re: What to do about the 2TB limit on HDIO_GETGEO ? |
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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).
-hpa
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