[PATCH] Speed up modprobe and MAKEDEV

[Dave Airlie]

On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 18:52 +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> Hi!
> 

> MAKEDEV sources almost 500KB of config files on every invocation, and the
> inner loop is terribly inefficient.  The second patch allows it to shrink
> the files to 55KB while expressing the same info and makes the inner loop
> more efficient.  Depending on how many modprobe and MAKEDEV invocations
> are done on your box during bootup, this can or might not make meassurable
> difference.
> 

I've just pushed MAKEDEV 3.23-7 into koji should be in rawhide soon.

MAKEDEV is now hosted on git.fedorahosted.org for anyone who cares.

Thanks Jakub.

Dave.