From: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>,
KML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: devfsd/2.6.0-test1
Date: 21 Jul 2003 16:52:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1058799142.5132.5.camel@workshop.saharacpt.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030721143645.GA9480@kroah.com>
On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 16:36, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 12:48:56AM +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> > On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 19:17, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> > > > Also, read the threads on the list about udev/hotplug - apparently
> > > > devfsd is going out ...
> > >
> > > as long as you have memory-based /dev you need devfsd even if it is called
> > > differently.
> > >
> >
> > I have not looked at it myself, but as far as I have it, you do not
> > mount /dev, and just need udev/hotplug/libsysfs (not sure on libsysfs).
> > Currently udev still call mknod, but I think Greg said he will fix that
> > in the future.
>
> What's wrong with calling mknod?
>
> I did say I thought about calling sys_mknod directly from udev, but
> that's just a minor change. Is that what you were referring to?
>
Yep. Nothing major - I just want to remember somebody moaning
about too much overhead with udev spawning for every event in
/dev.
Cheers,
--
Martin Schlemmer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-21 14:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-20 17:17 devfsd/2.6.0-test1 Andrey Borzenkov
2003-07-20 22:48 ` devfsd/2.6.0-test1 Martin Schlemmer
2003-07-21 11:09 ` devfsd/2.6.0-test1 Rusty Russell
2003-07-21 14:36 ` devfsd/2.6.0-test1 Greg KH
2003-07-21 14:52 ` Martin Schlemmer [this message]
2003-07-21 15:02 ` devfsd/2.6.0-test1 Greg KH
[not found] <200307172145.14681.arvidjaar@mail.ru>
2003-07-18 10:49 ` devfsd/2.6.0-test1 Mark Watts
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2003-07-17 9:17 devfsd/2.6.0-test1 Mark Watts
2003-07-17 10:02 ` devfsd/2.6.0-test1 Thierry Vignaud
2003-07-17 11:07 ` devfsd/2.6.0-test1 Mark Watts
2003-07-17 12:10 ` devfsd/2.6.0-test1 Martin Schlemmer
2003-07-17 22:39 ` devfsd/2.6.0-test1 Bill Davidsen
2003-07-20 16:27 ` devfsd/2.6.0-test1 Martin Schlemmer
2003-07-23 21:28 ` devfsd/2.6.0-test1 bill davidsen
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