From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264471AbUAAQSH (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jan 2004 11:18:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264453AbUAAQSH (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jan 2004 11:18:07 -0500 Received: from mail2-116.ewetel.de ([212.6.122.116]:55180 "EHLO mail2.ewetel.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264471AbUAAQRz (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jan 2004 11:17:55 -0500 Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 17:17:50 +0100 (CET) From: Pascal Schmidt To: Greg KH cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: udev and devfs - The final word In-Reply-To: <20031231192306.GG25389@kroah.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-CheckCompat: OK Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Greg KH wrote: > You would not have any "extra" overhead if you don't add any new devices > to your system. udev only runs when /sbin/hotplug runs. As for extra > space on your disk, this email thread is almost as big as the udev > binary is :) Well, but if random device numbers become a reality, udev would have to run at boot time or I wouldn't get usable device nodes. So there is some setup complexity (because so far I don't need a correctly setup hotplug system at all). Not much of a problem, granted, distributions will do this for most of us and only a few people will do it by hand. -- Ciao, Pascal