Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Dec 2005 18:05:02 -0500 | From | Benjamin LaHaise <> | Subject | Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel |
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On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 04:47:55PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote: > So no in-kernel filesystem can get this right without help from userspace > (even devfs had devfsd), and as soon as you've got a userspace daemon to tell > the kernel who is who you might as well do the whole thing there, now that > the kernel is exporting everyting _else_ we need to know via /sys > and /sbin/hotplug.
/sbin/hotplug is suboptimal. Even a pretty fast machine is slowed down pretty significantly by the ~thousand fork and exec that take place during startup. For the most common devices -- common tty, pty, floppy, etc that every system has, this is a plain waste of resources -- otherwise known as bloat.
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