From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264093AbTLJUu6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Dec 2003 15:50:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263969AbTLJUtc (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Dec 2003 15:49:32 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:44165 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263956AbTLJUsO (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Dec 2003 15:48:14 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: mru@kth.se (=?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?=) Subject: Re: udev sysfs docs Re: State of devfs in 2.6? Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 21:48:11 +0100 Message-ID: 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> <20031210212209.7fce7dae.witukind@nsbm.kicks-ass.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Rational FORTRAN, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:nLKKrOhQR4YzTqAlD+RogQmQLr4= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Witukind writes: > 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. In that case I don't classify your laptop as a regular system any more. I remember saying that the space saving could be worthwhile on small systems a while back. -- Måns Rullgård mru@kth.se