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From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: David Dillow <dave@thedillows.org>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
	Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>, Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com>,
	Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Driver Core: devtmpfs - kernel-maintained tmpfs-based /dev
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:04:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1250035459.30166.44.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090811145523.GD14368@basil.fritz.box>

Hi Andi,

> > No, not really. It isn't hard to make a static /dev, or a rescue initrd
> > for the cases with dynamic device numbers.
> 
> There's a world between strictly controlled embedded and fully general
> distributions.
> 
> I want a dynamic /dev, but a fast one that doesn't need initrd or
> slows down booting.
> 
> This patch seems to be a good way to get that.

I fully agree.

And more important, if you don't like it, you don't have to use it. It
is just another filesystem and if you wanna stick with tmpfs that is
just fine, too :)

Regards

Marcel



  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-12  0:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-05 17:15 [PATCH] Driver Core: devtmpfs - kernel-maintained tmpfs-based /dev Greg KH
2009-08-05 17:43 ` David Vrabel
2009-08-05 17:55   ` Greg KH
2009-08-05 18:20 ` Alan Cox
2009-08-05 18:28   ` Greg KH
2009-08-05 18:51     ` Greg KH
2009-08-06 15:46       ` Andi Kleen
2009-08-06 16:20         ` David Dillow
2009-08-06 17:10           ` Andi Kleen
2009-08-06 18:31           ` Greg KH
2009-08-07 15:47             ` Phil Turmel
2009-08-08 23:07             ` David Dillow
2009-08-10 15:39               ` Greg KH
2009-08-11 14:36                 ` David Dillow
2009-08-11 14:55                   ` Andi Kleen
2009-08-12  0:04                     ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2009-08-12  0:25                     ` David Dillow
2009-08-12  0:34                       ` Greg KH
2009-08-12  4:31                         ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-08-12 12:56                         ` David Dillow
2009-08-12 13:44                           ` Greg KH
2009-08-12 14:09                             ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-08-12 15:25                               ` Greg KH
2009-08-12 14:39                             ` David Dillow
2009-08-12 15:26                               ` Greg KH
2009-08-12 15:57                                 ` David Dillow
2009-08-12  7:31                       ` Andi Kleen
2009-08-12 12:50                         ` David Dillow
2009-08-12 14:07                         ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-08-12 14:14                           ` Andi Kleen
2009-08-10  9:04           ` Scott James Remnant
2009-08-06 17:06         ` Al Boldi
2009-08-06 17:15           ` Kay Sievers
2009-08-06 17:27             ` Al Boldi
2009-08-06 17:31               ` Kay Sievers
2009-08-06 18:36           ` Greg KH
2009-08-06 20:18             ` Al Boldi
2009-08-06 20:49               ` Greg KH
2009-08-07  4:03                 ` Al Boldi
2009-08-07  4:25                   ` Greg KH
2009-08-07  5:04                     ` Al Boldi
2009-08-07  5:20                       ` Greg KH
2009-08-07 12:49                         ` Al Boldi
2009-08-07 15:13                           ` Greg KH
2009-08-07 15:51                         ` Chris Friesen
2009-08-07 16:06                           ` Kay Sievers
2009-08-07 21:17                           ` Al Boldi
2009-08-07 22:24                             ` Greg KH
2009-08-08  9:14                               ` Al Boldi
2009-08-08 17:11                                 ` Greg KH
2009-08-08 18:55                                   ` Al Boldi
2009-08-10 15:40                                     ` Greg KH
2009-08-11  3:48                                       ` Al Boldi
2009-08-11  4:04                                         ` Greg KH
2009-08-11 15:18                                           ` Al Boldi
2009-08-11 15:49                                             ` Greg KH
2009-08-11 16:04                                               ` Chris Friesen
2009-08-11 16:51                                                 ` Greg KH
2009-08-12  4:25                                                   ` Al Boldi
2009-08-10  9:01               ` Scott James Remnant
2009-08-10 12:05                 ` Al Boldi
2009-08-10 12:39                   ` Scott James Remnant
2009-08-10  9:22               ` Harald Hoyer
2009-08-08 22:19     ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-08-05 20:55 ` Alan Jenkins
2009-08-06  0:06   ` Greg KH
2009-08-06  0:19     ` Kay Sievers
2009-08-07  0:27       ` Greg KH
2009-08-09 12:09 ` Pavel Machek
2009-08-10 16:36   ` Greg KH
2009-08-10 15:54     ` Pavel Machek
2009-08-12  1:20       ` Kay Sievers
2009-08-12 21:33 ` Robert Schwebel
2009-08-12 22:08   ` Greg KH
2009-08-13  8:25   ` Xavier Bestel
2009-08-13  8:55     ` Robert Schwebel
2009-08-13  2:18 ` Ming Lei
2009-08-13  2:53   ` Greg KH

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