From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver-core: devtmpfs - driver core maintained /dev tmpfs
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 11:28:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090514092854.GF1365@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ac3eb2510905061908u7acbd1b2nf991aa85e1517fe4@mail.gmail.com>
Hi!
> > so just to state the obvious: this code is not needed to boot fast.
> > It is mostly a workaround for having a bad initrd; if you don't use an
> > initrd, or if you use an initrd that's made with the right device nodes
> > in it already, you really just don't need this.
> >
> > I would much rather that you just fix your initrd... than to put this
> > sort of thing into the kernel....
>
> How will you solve the dynamic device numbers? They are a complete
> reality today.
Maybe dynamic device numbers are bad idea to start with?
I'd like to keep static /dev, thank you... With big enough major/minor
space (which we have today, I believe), complexity of dynamic device
numbers can and should be avoided.
Plus... this patch 'hardcoded' device names. Why not 'hardcode'
device numbers in the same way, so that static /dev keeps working?
Namespace should be big enough...
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-14 9:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-30 13:23 [PATCH] driver-core: devtmpfs - driver core maintained /dev tmpfs Kay Sievers
2009-05-01 5:29 ` Andrew Morton
2009-05-01 6:17 ` Greg KH
2009-05-01 6:43 ` Andrew Morton
2009-05-01 6:55 ` Greg KH
2009-05-01 7:03 ` Andrew Morton
2009-05-01 10:52 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-01 11:38 ` Michael Tokarev
2009-05-01 11:44 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-01 11:03 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-01 11:11 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-01 13:18 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-01 13:24 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-02 7:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-02 13:46 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-02 15:18 ` Andy Lutomirski
2009-05-02 15:35 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-02 18:20 ` Michael Riepe
2009-05-02 19:55 ` Alan Jenkins
2009-05-02 21:47 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-04 16:20 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2009-05-04 16:53 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-04 17:54 ` Michael Riepe
2009-05-04 18:13 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-04 18:55 ` Michael Riepe
2009-05-04 19:13 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-04 19:30 ` Greg KH
2009-05-02 1:24 ` Brian Swetland
2009-05-02 1:48 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-02 2:02 ` Brian Swetland
2009-05-02 2:28 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-02 4:42 ` Brian Swetland
2009-05-02 13:30 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-01 11:01 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-01 11:02 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-01 11:16 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-01 19:26 ` Andrew Morton
2009-05-01 21:59 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-01 22:21 ` Andrew Morton
2009-05-01 6:57 ` Chris Wedgwood
2009-05-01 14:01 ` Greg KH
2009-05-01 15:43 ` Alan Jenkins
2009-05-01 16:04 ` Greg KH
2009-05-01 21:13 ` Alan Jenkins
2009-05-01 15:53 ` Chris Wedgwood
2009-05-01 16:09 ` Greg KH
2009-05-01 16:17 ` Chris Wedgwood
2009-05-01 10:19 ` Alan Jenkins
2009-05-01 11:13 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-01 12:38 ` Alan Jenkins
2009-05-01 13:12 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-02 15:03 ` Kyle Moffett
2009-05-01 14:55 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-01 11:41 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-05-01 11:59 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-02 7:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-02 11:34 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-02 20:22 ` Alan Jenkins
2009-05-02 21:39 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-02 22:04 ` Alan Jenkins
2009-05-03 7:29 ` Michael Tokarev
2009-05-02 21:41 ` Alan Jenkins
2009-05-02 21:54 ` Greg KH
2009-05-02 21:59 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-02 16:59 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-05-02 17:57 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-06 12:56 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-07 1:41 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-05-07 2:08 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-07 2:25 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-05-07 2:40 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-14 9:28 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2009-05-07 8:17 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-05-07 9:28 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-07 14:43 ` Theodore Tso
2009-05-07 15:13 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-10 0:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-05-10 0:56 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-10 2:11 ` Eric W. Biederman
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