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Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:20:15 +0800
From: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] devcgroup: skip superfluous checks when found the DEV_ALL
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Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:47:16 +0800
> Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> 
>> While walking through the whitelist, if the DEV_ALL item is found,
>> no more check is needed.
>>
> 
> It's unobvious whether this is a behavioural change, a bugfix or just a
> speedup?
> 

It's a speedup. I thought it's obvious by saying "skip superfluous checks"..