Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Dec 2003 15:29:13 -0800 | From | jw schultz <> | Subject | Re: State of devfs in 2.6? |
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On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 09:42:54PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 12:10:47PM -0500, Mark Mielke wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 09:21:56AM +0100, Holger Schurig wrote: > > > Devfs for embedded devices is just great. It's all in the kernel, no > > > external process to run (I use my embedded stuff without devfsd). I'm using > > > it for about one year with various kernels. > > > > I don't see why 'all in the kernel' is the best approach, embedded or > > otherwise. I believe udev is being written to execute with a minimal > > runtime environment. No glibc, or other such beasts. > > Exactly. The current bk tree version of udev (which has more features > than the 008 release) is weighing in at 49Kb, linked statically, no > external dependancies.
And if we are talking about the smaller embedded systems it would be good to remember that their /dev doesn't really change much so devfs and udev could be left out entirely by having a small staticly populated /dev in the initramfs/initrd image, or whatever is used for /.
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