Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 2 May 2009 14:54:34 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] driver-core: devtmpfs - driver core maintained /dev tmpfs |
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On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 10:41:50PM +0100, Alan Jenkins wrote: > > But is read-only so bad? You just have to copy it over to a tmpfs and > then mount that on top of /dev. That's atomic, so it won't interfere > with parallel early init.
The copy would not be atomic.
> I sympathize, devtmpfs is a really neat hack that does exactly what > udev needs. But you have to admit, it doesn't fit in _quite_ as well > with the kernel status quo.
I disagree, it mirrors exactly what we are doing today from userspace, which is quite the "status quo" in that distros have been doing that for years now :)
thanks,
greg k-h
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