Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: devfsd/2.6.0-test1 | From | Martin Schlemmer <> | Date | 21 Jul 2003 16:52:22 +0200 |
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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
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