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SubjectRe: What to do about the 2TB limit on HDIO_GETGEO ?
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


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