Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Oct 1999 08:19:51 -0500 (CDT) | From | Oliver Xymoron <> | Subject | Re: [patch] dynamic char and block devices |
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On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Richard Gooch wrote:
> Oliver Xymoron writes: > > On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Richard Gooch wrote: > > > > > > Since it looks doubtful that devfs will get applied anytime soon, do > > > > you have an alternate solution to suggest? > > > > > > No. Unless you store the fops with the inode, you don't have much > > > choice but to do a table lookup. So far it hasn't hurt us because the > > > lookup is an index operation, which is fast. > > > > However open(2) is not an index operation, even on devfs. > > Not sure what you're trying to say here.
I'm saying open has to do a filename->inode mapping which is probably a bit harder than the device number->fops mapping we're talking about here.
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