From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754500AbZEIPM6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 May 2009 11:12:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752490AbZEIPMu (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 May 2009 11:12:50 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:33210 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751534AbZEIPMt (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 May 2009 11:12:49 -0400 Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 08:08:53 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Fabio Comolli Cc: Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch 00/13] devtmpfs patches Message-ID: <20090509150853.GA32394@suse.de> References: <20090509143742.GA27663@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 05:10:24PM +0200, Fabio Comolli wrote: > Hi. > > On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Greg KH wrote: > > Here's the latest version of the devtmpfs patch, broken up into 13 > > different patches to make it easier to review and merge properly. > > > > This series does the following: > >  - creates a new callback within the driver core to allow drivers and > >    subsystems to provide a name for their subsystem to properly reflect > >    what userspace should use for their device nodes.  This allows for > >    things like the sound/ and input/ subdirectories to be properly told > >    to userspace.  Note these names and subdirectories are the ones that > >    have been used for years, and are standardized across all > >    distributions and synced up with the LANANA naming scheme which is > >    specified by LSB.  We aren't creating anything new here. > >  - fills in the callbacks by the various subsystems that need to define > >    it, including the misc device layer.  This is the majority of the > >    patches in the series. > >  - adds the devtmpfs core code.  Description of what this is, why it is > >    needed, and how it works is within this patch. > > > > All of these patches have been tested for a number of weeks now in > > SuSE's kernel trees and have proved to increase boot time a measurable > > ammount (a few seconds at the very least) > > Well, guess you meant the opposite ;-) Heh, yes, sorry about that. It makes booting faster :) thanks, greg k-h