Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:13:03 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Remove broken by design and by implementation devtmpfs maintenance disaster |
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> > * A static dev is faster. > > A static /dev is unreliable and unpredictable, and can not be used in > any not very limited and controlled environment. It's pure theory for
Moblin appears to be the fastest boot and doesn't use it. I fact Arjan seems pretty anti
> Eric, ever wondered why all the people working in hotplug area, > maintaining todays systems, and even the ones who wrote udev, want > this? And only people who have never written any code in hotplug land
"All". Thats a bit of a fiction.
But this is the wrong argument anyway
The question is - Is it technically correct - Does it properly interact with the rest of the kernel and upcoming stuff
So I'd like to see the fs folks sign off on it - which they've noticably not done yet.
Whether you want devfs2 (ie devtmpfs) or static dev or udev is a configuration and user dependant question no different to what fs do you prefer. Whether it actually works and doesn't screw stuff up is a rather more important technical question that needs proper review from the fs list, which is notably lacking right now, except in the negative. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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