"mdev -s" fails to create /dev entries

[Holland, John]

> > >(This is glossing over the fact that searching through an arbitrarily 
> > >large /sys tree could be very slow on certain systems, and a lot of embedded 
> > >stuff is using 100 mhz processors and such, and prefer mdev to udev for the 
> > >_speed_ as much as for the memory savings.)
> > 
> > You're right... However, those tiny systems normally do not have the number
> > of devices/modules as the others. If you wish, we could leave dirAction and
> > redefine it not to walk through certain directories ('/modules/').
> > 
> > For me, speed is secondary. I'd prefer that mdev works as intended on many
> > kernels, w/o having to worry if mdev will work on some forthcoming kernel.
> 
> You cannot neglect other user's needs like that.

I understand... I've placed proper function before optimization.

> Let's implement strstr("/block/") thing but restrict the scan to /sys/block
> and /sys/class for now.

Agreed... 

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