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SubjectRe: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel
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.

-ben
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