Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Fri, 11 Apr 2003 15:58:18 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 0.1 release |
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On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 03:43:12PM -0700, Steven Dake wrote: > > Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: > > >On 2003-04-11T15:30:21, > > Steven Dake <sdake@mvista.com> said: > > > > > > > >>There is no "spec" that states this is a requirement, however, telecom > >>customers require the elapsed time from the time they request the disk > >>to be used, to the disk being usable by the operating system to be 20 > >>msec. > >> > >> > > > >Heh. Yes, I've read that spec, and some of it involves some good crack > >smoking > >;-) The current Linux scheduler will make that rather hard for you, you'll > >need hard realtime for such guarantees. > > > Its quite easy to do if you are not dependent upon spawning an entire > process to execute the insertion and creation even of the device node.
Then have the telcos live with the static /dev that they have today :)
There's always a price to pay for new features...
greg k-h
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