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From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Date:   Mon, 25 May 2020 15:02:15 +0200
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On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 1:12 PM Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> > I remember I even referred to this myself, but I've been waning a bit
> > on it recently, because it turns out that userspace/users aren't very
> > good at parsing sysfs for topology.
>
> Which is why they could use libudev :)

Yet they insist on using things like Busybox' mdev (e.g. OpenWrt)
or Android ... or is Android using libudev now? I'd be delighted
if they did.

Yours,
Linus Walleij