[PATCH] Speed up modprobe and MAKEDEV

[Jon Masters]

On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 16:10 +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote:

> FYI, here is a tiny incremental fix for the patch I've posted earlier
> - Mandriva folks reported that with my patch depmod was upset when run
> on a tree with no modules at all.

:) Though if we ever manage to "demodularize for the win" to that point,
well, it'll be quite exciting!

I'm testing your 3.4.1 patch against today's 3.5 tree and will followup
with some results. Whichever performs best, I'll keep. Sorry I didn't
sort this out sooner, but it's time to move forward and get this sorted
out - and there are more trivial fixes I've got in mind. As of today's
rawhide there are also no longer any Fedora-specific patches left.

Jon.