Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Oct 2003 11:18:58 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: ANNOUNCE: User-space System Device Enumation (uSDE) |
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On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 03:30:30PM +0100, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > ---cut---
Sweet shell script, nice job.
> So udev is 99% overhead?
To you, sure, it might be. Don't use it then, I'm not forcing anyone.
> > SDE: 57328 lines > > udev: 9090 lines > shell script: 41 lines
Hm, how about the size of bash?
> > that udev is suffering from "lack of maintainability and bloat" if you > > really want :) > > bloat. lots of bloat. what is that tdb database for? > filesystems are persistent. if you want to save space, > create a tar file :-)
Sweet, and then run everything on a in-ram compress filesystem just to save that precious disk space.
> > p.s. yes, I know lines of code is a horrible metric, and doesn't really > > mean squat. I just want to point out the huge size difference between > > the current state of udev and SDE, with pretty much identical > > functionality from what I can tell. > > I agree. lines of codes is a horrible metric, and comparing a shell > script that uses many external commands to a c application with > everything build is makes absolutely no sense. but I wonder why > the off the shelf machine needs a c applications, if all those > external commands are installed anyway.
Remember, userspace is just a load test for the kernel, who really needs applications anyway.
</sarcasm>
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