Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Oct 2003 02:15:23 +0200 (CEST) | From | Pascal Schmidt <> | Subject | Re: [RFC 0/6] Backing Store for sysfs |
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On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Greg KH wrote:
> Systems like this are not uncommon, I agree. But also for systems like > this, the current code works just fine (small number of fixed devices.) > I haven't heard anyone complain about memory usage for a normal system > (99.9% of the systems out there.)
I'd like my kernel to have as small a footprint as possible. Allocated memory that is almost never used is waste. It may not be much, but "add little to little and you will have a big pile". Whatever, we're not the big pile yet and I'm not concerned enough to cook up patches.
> Also, remember that in 2.7 I'm going to make device numbers random so > you will have to use something like udev to control your /dev tree. > Slowly weaning yourself off of a static /dev during the next 2 years or > so might be a good idea :)
I guess by then we'll have an excellent udev version with no known bugs. ;) However, requiring more and more packages to be installed just to boot a system is also not something I like much.
-- Ciao, Pascal
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