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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: New software: Hotplug2, aimed at early userspace
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:17:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060908171747.GA1204@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060902163017.693cd988@silver>

On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 04:00:42PM +0200, iSteve wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 18:27:43 -0700
> Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > If you want a small and faster versionof udev, that does less things,
> > the very first few versions of udev will do just that :)
> 
> I thought the first versions were still using /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug
> interface?

Yes they are, but it would be pretty trivial to change that if you so
desired.

> > But people already use udev today with initramfs / initrd.  And then
> > there's busybox's implementation of a udev-like program, which is about
> > 2 years behind udev's evolution.
> 
> Yes, I'm aware that people use udev in initramfs/initrd... the point is, I
> disagree with it... I think fullblown udev for initramfs/initrd is just a huge
> overkill -- not that most people actually care...

Why do you think this?  You need to do /dev stuff there, and you want
persistent names at that point in time too.

Are you running out of space somewhere that makes udev too big for your
initramfs?

> > I'm all for people working on what they want to work on, but perhaps you
> > might want to help working with us on making udev fit your requirements?
> 
> Hmm, I guess I could; I thought it'd be faster (and it'd involve less hassle
> while discussing it with people) to write a fully working application, at least
> as a proof of concept...

Yes, proof of concepts are great.  Maybe I'm missing something, but how
does this instance show how things should be changed in udev?

thanks,

greg k-h

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-09-08 17:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-02 14:30 New software: Hotplug2, aimed at early userspace iSteve
2006-09-03 10:16 ` iSteve
2006-09-04  1:04 ` Aras Vaichas
2006-09-04  6:20 ` iSteve
2006-09-04  7:48 ` iSteve
2006-09-06  1:27 ` Greg KH
2006-09-08 14:00 ` iSteve
2006-09-08 15:22 ` Kay Sievers
2006-09-08 17:17 ` Greg KH [this message]

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