Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 May 2009 14:18:46 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] driver-core: devtmpfs - driver core maintained /dev tmpfs |
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> No tool ever has a chance to get to the information only available at > early kernel init. All such tools will need to "replay" what the > kernel already did. This is intended to save us from doing this, and > retain the information which is there, but lost at the moment the > tools have the first chance to run.
Serious question - which is the better problem to fix ?
> It's not about a sucking tool, its just impossible. And there is no > space wasted, it's a single string for a very few subsystems, an > nothing is stored per device.
Plus code plus tmpfs nodes (the latter are not quite free because you create unneeded ones versus udev but I agree that is noise for most users)
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