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Message-ID: <20090620190630.GN19977@parisc-linux.org>
Date:	Sat, 20 Jun 2009 13:06:30 -0600
From:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
To:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
Cc:	jim owens <jowens@...com>, Martin Knoblauch <knobi@...bisoft.de>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, efault@....de,
	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, rjw@...k.pl, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	shemminger@...tta.com, mike.miller@...com,
	linux-pci@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Analyzed/Solved/Bisected: Booting 2.6.30-rc2-git7 very slow

On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 08:36:25PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> Ah, I see. There is no tool around udev, I know of, which does this.
> 
> Maybe someone is still using the broken-by-design libsysfs, which
> opens _every_ file it can find in /sys, even when not asked for
> anything specific.

I did consider that option, but dismissed it ... I didn't think anyone
was using something that old.  Martin, could you take a look at what
scripts you're running?

-- 
Matthew Wilcox				Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
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