From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262633AbVFWIMh (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2005 04:12:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262632AbVFWIL3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2005 04:11:29 -0400 Received: from nome.ca ([65.61.200.81]:49857 "HELO gobo.nome.ca") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262128AbVFWGrU (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2005 02:47:20 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 23:47:06 -0700 From: Mike Bell To: Andrew Morton Cc: miles@gnu.org, greg@kroah.com, gregkh@suse.de, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] Remove devfs from 2.6.12-git Message-ID: <20050623064705.GC955@mikebell.org> Mail-Followup-To: Mike Bell , Andrew Morton , miles@gnu.org, greg@kroah.com, gregkh@suse.de, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20050621062926.GB15062@kroah.com> <20050620235403.45bf9613.akpm@osdl.org> <20050621151019.GA19666@kroah.com> <20050623010031.GB17453@mikebell.org> <20050623045959.GB10386@kroah.com> <20050623063457.GB955@mikebell.org> <20050622233759.7a1130a9.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050622233759.7a1130a9.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 11:37:59PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > sysfs certainly has a history of goggling gobs of memory. But you can > disable it in .config. Right. Which breaks udev. Hence I say that if you're looking at "size of devfs versus udev for solution X" and your devfs solution doesn't require sysfs, then sysfs should be included in the size of udev for the sake of the comparison. Before anyone asks, that's not to say that sysfs is useless in a devfs setting, merely that it's not required in most whereas it is required for udev to even work.