On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 19:06 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> CPU topology is available in sysfs - it shouild be possible to push policy
> decisions like this up to userspace.
We covered this in an earlier round of submission, but I should have
updated the inline comments.
While we expose a way for userspace to open an explicit device based on
its knowledge of topology, I think we need a "take your best shot" minor
number, too, which is what this is.
If we *don't* provide one, userspace can end up with exactly the kinds
of messy race situations that used to be seen with ptys before /dev/ptmx
and /dev/pts came along.
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