From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263927AbTLJUWT (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Dec 2003 15:22:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263930AbTLJUWT (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Dec 2003 15:22:19 -0500 Received: from dyn-213-36-224-2.ppp.tiscali.fr ([213.36.224.2]:11780 "EHLO nsbm.kicks-ass.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263927AbTLJUWP convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Dec 2003 15:22:15 -0500 Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 21:22:09 +0100 From: Witukind To: mru@kth.se (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?=) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: udev sysfs docs Re: State of devfs in 2.6? Message-Id: <20031210212209.7fce7dae.witukind@nsbm.kicks-ass.org> In-Reply-To: References: <200312081536.26022.andrew@walrond.org> <20031208154256.GV19856@holomorphy.com> <3FD4CC7B.8050107@nishanet.com> <20031208233755.GC31370@kroah.com> <20031209061728.28bfaf0f.witukind@nsbm.kicks-ass.org> <20031209075619.GA1698@kroah.com> <1070960433.869.77.camel@nomade> <20031209090815.GA2681@kroah.com> <20031210202354.7a3c429a.witukind@nsbm.kicks-ass.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 20:33:24 +0100 mru@kth.se (Måns Rullgård) wrote: > Witukind writes: > > > On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 10:39:32 +0100 mru@kth.se (Måns Rullgård) wrote: > > > >> > Is there a specific case for which people want this feature? > >> > Offhand it seems like a slightly odd thing to ask for... > >> > >> I believe the original motivation for module autoloading was to > >save> memory by unloading modules when their devices were unused. > >Loading> them automatically on demand made for less trouble for > >users, who> didn't have to run modprobe manually to use the sound > >card, or> whatever. This could still be a good thing in embedded > >systems.> > > > > I don't see why it wouldn't be a good thing for regular systems > > also. Saving memory is usually a good idea. > > The biggest modules are about 100k. Saving 100k of 1 GB doesn't > really seem worth any effort. I don't have 1 Gb of memory. On my laptop with 16 mb RAM saving 100k is worth the effort. -- Jabber: heimdal@jabber.org