From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262363AbVFWITW (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2005 04:19:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262863AbVFWIQc (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2005 04:16:32 -0400 Received: from lyle.provo.novell.com ([137.65.81.174]:14513 "EHLO lyle.provo.novell.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262284AbVFWHDW (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2005 03:03:22 -0400 Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 00:03:09 -0700 From: Greg KH To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com, miles@gnu.org Cc: Greg KH , Mike Bell , Andrew Morton , torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] Remove devfs from 2.6.12-git Message-ID: <20050623070309.GA12158@suse.de> References: <20050621062926.GB15062@kroah.com> <20050620235403.45bf9613.akpm@osdl.org> <20050621151019.GA19666@kroah.com> <20050623010031.GB17453@mikebell.org> <20050623045959.GB10386@kroah.com> <20050623062627.GB11638@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 03:36:11PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > On 6/23/05, Greg KH wrote: > > Not that I know of. If you want to do this, compare the original udev > > releases that were around 5kb of code, as the nice features it has today > > are stuff that devfs can not support at all. > > That wouldn't be such an effective tool for convincing people to > switch though... :-) "Look this obsolete version is much smaller!" > > If udev has really bloated up due to whizzy new features, how hard > would it be to compile a stripped-down version? [Well I should look > at the busybox support somebody mentioned -- perhaps it's exactly > that.] It wouldn't be that hard at all, just look at the first couple of releases for example code to use (you would want it to be a totally separate project, the current udev is not ment for such a stripped down thing, it's ment to take over all of the /sbin/hotplug funcionality, through netlink no less.) thanks, greg k-h