Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 May 2002 11:44:38 -0700 (PDT) | From | Patrick Mochel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5.14 IDE 56 |
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On Tue, 7 May 2002, Richard Gooch wrote:
> Patrick Mochel writes: > > Oh, and it's with a modern, clean filesystem, 1/5 the size of devfs. > > The size argument is not an issue. I've already said that devfs will > shrink a lot once I move tree management from my own code to the VFS.
I agree 100%. However, I think that move will be very painful. I tried to do it a couple of months ago, and there were so many interdependencies and oddities that I gave up after about 6 hours.
> At that point devfs will mostly be: > - an API > - a way fo supporting the devfsd protocol.
I argue that you shouldn't need a separate daemon. We already have the /sbin/hotplug interface. It's simple and sweet. We shouldn't need to rely on an entirely separate daemon.
-pat
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