Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Dec 2005 22:32:36 -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 09:19:28PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote: > > /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. > > Why do you need hotplug events on startup? Can't you just scan /sys for "dev" > entries do the initial populate of /dev from that?
That's my point: I don't. Yet the kernel tries to exec /sbin/hotplug on startup around 1000 times.
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