Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 18:17:59 +0200
From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
To: "Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCHSET 2.6.22-rc2-mm1] sysfs: reduce memory footprint of
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On Tue, 29 May 2007 12:04:30 -0400,
"Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think that #3 is a good idea as well - we have a lot of sysfs
> objects on any given system and slimming down sysfs benefits everyone.

Yes, and the added complexity is not that bad.

The patchset seems to work fine so far on the (small z/VM guest) system
I tested it a bit on; I'll try a huge (LPAR) system next.
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