From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754933AbZEIPtb (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 May 2009 11:49:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752083AbZEIPtX (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 May 2009 11:49:23 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:42589 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751528AbZEIPtW (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 May 2009 11:49:22 -0400 Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 08:22:33 -0700 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Greg KH Cc: Fabio Comolli , Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch 00/13] devtmpfs patches Message-ID: <20090509082233.32cbb8e4@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20090509150853.GA32394@suse.de> References: <20090509143742.GA27663@kroah.com> <20090509150853.GA32394@suse.de> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.14.7; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 9 May 2009 08:08:53 -0700 Greg KH wrote: > > Well, guess you meant the opposite ;-) > > Heh, yes, sorry about that. It makes booting faster :) .. and I don't buy that. The only argument I've heard is "oh but it's hard". No it's not. The other argument is "but for more partitions we get other device numbers"... you know what, that's easy to fix. Just make the 32 bit dev number consistent. Few lines of code I bet, and it is benefit for everyone to do that.... Beyond that... this is not needed... but at least call it "devfs".. for what it is. (and yes there is very obvious irony) -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org