Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Jun 2003 10:18:56 -0700 (PDT) | From | Patrick Mochel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] udev enhancements to use kernel event queue |
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> A class number is an excellent idea, and could have potential > performance gains. I thought of making such a patch, but expected it > would be rejected since it is necessarily required and would require > changes to significant sections of the kernel (to add the class to each > object type). > > Have any better ideas for an implementation that doesn't touch so many > sections of the kernel?
It should be trivial - we can use the subsystem name that the kobject belongs to for the class ID. And, struct subsystem can gain a sequence number, instead of having a global one in lib/kobject.c.
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