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Subject: Re: [patch] kernel sysfs events layer
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On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 15:00 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Why not share the implementation here?

Because we will probably want to export do_send_kevent(), with a
different name, if this thing starts getting used, because there are
places where the kobj path is already computed and although inexpensive
it does cost a few cycles to go kobject -> path as a string.

	Robert Love