Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Aug 2009 11:36:53 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Driver Core: devtmpfs - kernel-maintained tmpfs-based /dev |
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On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 08:06:16PM +0300, Al Boldi wrote: > Andi Kleen wrote: > > Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> writes: > > > It makes the userspace boot process much simpler and easier to maintain, > > > as well as providing a way to handle rescue disks and images trivially, > > > and it makes the kernel _less_ dependant on the early userspace bootup > > > scripts. > > > > As a initrd less kernel user I can really only agree: getting rid > > of the udev-in-initrd requirement would be a big step forward > > in usability. Typically I always have to pre populate > > a on disk /dev manually first to get my kernels to boot. > > Oh good, I thought I was the only one doing that. > > The reason I don't like udev is that it's just to slow; something like a 5-10s > delay on each boot. No idea why it should be so slow, but it's probably > probing the kernel for all available devices at boot, when it could be much > quicker by probing for the device on access.
Like Kay stated, this sounds like a misconfiguration of your distro's udev setup, as the ones I use (openSUSE and Gentoo) do not have this problem at all.
Please work with your distro and the people on the linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org mailing list to help resolve this issue.
thanks,
greg k-h
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