From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Cc: Mike Bell <kernel@mikebell.org>,
Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] ndevfs - a "nano" devfs
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 09:06:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050629160659.GA23594@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200506290841.29785.oliver@neukum.org>
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 08:41:29AM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> What devfs and udev can do, and a static dev cannot, is names independent
> of order of detection.
devfs can not do that.
> As for ressources, it is an illusion to think that user space means
> less ressources. A demon means page tables and a kernel stack. That
> 12K unswappable memory in the best case.
You don't have to run the udevd process if you are worried about an
extra process in your kernel tables. Although this is the first time I
have heard anyone voice the "oh no, not another userspace task running"
point :)
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-29 16:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-24 8:18 [ANNOUNCE] ndevfs - a "nano" devfs Greg KH
2005-06-24 12:23 ` Michael Tokarev
2005-06-24 15:16 ` Greg KH
2005-06-24 15:40 ` Michael Tokarev
2005-06-24 16:26 ` Greg KH
2005-06-24 14:32 ` Bill Gatliff
2005-06-24 15:17 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-06-24 15:20 ` Greg KH
2005-06-24 17:10 ` Michael Tokarev
2005-06-24 17:10 ` Bill Gatliff
2005-06-28 7:40 ` Greg KH
2005-06-24 19:05 ` Mike Bell
2005-06-24 21:55 ` J.A. Magallon
2005-06-24 19:22 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2005-06-25 0:57 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-06-25 7:37 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-06-28 7:41 ` Greg KH
2005-06-28 19:56 ` Tom Rini
2005-06-28 21:08 ` Olaf Hering
2005-06-28 21:25 ` Tom Rini
2005-06-28 22:08 ` Michael Tokarev
2005-06-28 22:23 ` Tom Rini
2005-06-25 22:15 ` Matt Mackall
2005-06-25 23:43 ` Greg KH
2005-06-26 8:23 ` Russell King
2005-06-28 3:36 ` Greg KH
2005-06-27 7:19 ` Mike Bell
2005-06-27 22:35 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-06-27 23:26 ` Mike Bell
2005-06-28 7:40 ` Greg KH
2005-06-28 9:08 ` Mike Bell
2005-06-28 9:21 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-06-28 9:40 ` Mike Bell
2005-06-28 21:49 ` Jim Crilly
2005-06-28 22:23 ` Mike Bell
2005-06-28 23:43 ` Jim Crilly
2005-06-29 0:12 ` Mike Bell
2005-06-29 0:39 ` David Lang
2005-06-29 0:53 ` Mike Bell
2005-06-28 12:00 ` Oliver Neukum
2005-06-28 20:08 ` Greg KH
2005-06-29 6:41 ` Oliver Neukum
2005-06-29 16:06 ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-06-29 16:22 ` Oliver Neukum
[not found] ` <200506270819.20108.arnd@arndb.de>
2005-06-28 3:46 ` Greg KH
[not found] <OF831AC472.851744FE-ON8025702A.004A57EC-8025702A.004B5AE9@sophos.com>
2005-06-24 15:23 ` Greg KH
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2005-06-24 15:32 tvrtko.ursulin
2005-06-24 16:27 ` Greg KH
2005-06-27 15:21 Adam J. Richter
2005-06-27 23:27 ` J.A. Magallon
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