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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Driver Core: devtmpfs - kernel-maintained tmpfs-based /dev
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:34:33 -0700
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 08:25:27PM -0400, David Dillow wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 16:55 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > > No, not really. It isn't hard to make a static /dev, or a
> > > > rescue initrd for the cases with dynamic device numbers.
> > >
> > > There's a world between strictly controlled embedded and fully
> > > general distributions.
> >
> > Sure, and I've acknowledged that. But it doesn't mean this needs a
> > kernel solution.
> >
> > > I want a dynamic /dev, but a fast one that doesn't need initrd or
> > > slows down booting.
> >
> > So use Eric/Arjan's program that does it in 60ms -- you get a
> > dynamic /dev, no initrd, fast boot, and no kernel changes required.
>
> Their program only handles it for a reconstruction of /dev based on
> sysfs one time at boot. It does not handle things that are added or
> discovered by the system after that, you need udev for that.
>
> So it's a great hack for boot time stuff, but not a complete /dev
> management replacement

yeah you want udev for that anyway for various reasons...
(not that udev is expensive per se, the expensive part of it is the exec
of modprobe a hundred times... beyond that udev seems pretty cheap to
me)



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