Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Feb 2000 07:00:43 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: [patch-2.3.46-p3] /proc/driver/microcode P6 ucode support |
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On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > You see, Richard, there is a tiny problem. Many people will _really_ want > > to configure DEVFS out of their kernels. Procfs is much more conservative > > wrt dcache... > > Procfs adds 90K to the running footprint of my machine, so I want to run it > as a loadable module using old style /dev when building embedded boxes. > The real disk /dev is the right answer for small machines along with > sysctl without proc. > > Devfs looks after the big machine issues better.
Alan, sorry, but I'm not talking about the size issues. Devfs uses dcache in, erm, unusual ways and I wouldn't bet a dime on the correctness of that. It _will_ stabilize (I hope), but for now...
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