Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch-2.3.46-p3] /proc/driver/microcode P6 ucode support | Date | Thu, 17 Feb 2000 11:44:10 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> You see, Richard, there is a tiny problem. Many people will _really_ want > to configure DEVFS out of their kernels. Procfs is much more conservative > wrt dcache...
Procfs adds 90K to the running footprint of my machine, so I want to run it as a loadable module using old style /dev when building embedded boxes. The real disk /dev is the right answer for small machines along with sysctl without proc.
Devfs looks after the big machine issues better.
Procfs is to a great extent the wrong answer to most of its uses, its more bloated than sysctl but does little more and its slow.
Alan
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