Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:11:38 +0200 | | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Remove broken by design and by implementation devtmpfs maintenance disaster |
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On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:59:16 +0100 Scott James Remnant <scott@canonical.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 19:47 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > I don't really see the issue here. If Arjan doesn't want to use > > > devtmpfs for Moblin, he doesn't have to. > > > > my biggest objection was to the use of boot time as argument. > > That was and still is deceiving and false. There may be other > > arguments for devfs, but I'm not going to get in the middle of > > those. But boot time isn't it. > > > Right, I don't disagree. > > For some distributions devtmpfs allows them to do things without > running udev early; we long ago restructured Ubuntu so that udev is > one of the first things we run, therefore don't have that particular > problem. > > From my POV devtmpfs is useful because it means we can do away with > udev entirely in certain situations, especially the installer and > probably our initramfs when we need one too. > > The "statically make /dev from /sys" tools don't help, because /dev > needs to be kept up to date. And udev is too heavy, or the increased > maintenance of having a special installer udev is too annoying, etc.
hmmm I don't see our udev to be heavy in Moblin (but that is after we do the sysfs->dev step)
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