From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755200AbZHKOz2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:55:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755189AbZHKOz1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:55:27 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:37290 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755136AbZHKOz0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:55:26 -0400 Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:55:23 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: David Dillow Cc: Greg KH , Greg KH , Andi Kleen , Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kay Sievers , Jan Blunck , Harald Hoyer , Scott James Remnant Subject: Re: [PATCH] Driver Core: devtmpfs - kernel-maintained tmpfs-based /dev Message-ID: <20090811145523.GD14368@basil.fritz.box> References: <20090805171513.GA10443@kroah.com> <20090805192037.19c54c4d@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20090805182805.GA7534@kroah.com> <20090805185136.GA21442@kroah.com> <87ljlxhrnr.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> <1249575658.19886.8.camel@lap75545.ornl.gov> <20090806183147.GA28409@suse.de> <1249772876.22248.34.camel@obelisk.thedillows.org> <20090810153943.GB7652@kroah.com> <1250001374.22248.65.camel@obelisk.thedillows.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1250001374.22248.65.camel@obelisk.thedillows.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > No, not really. It isn't hard to make a static /dev, or a rescue initrd > for the cases with dynamic device numbers. There's a world between strictly controlled embedded and fully general distributions. I want a dynamic /dev, but a fast one that doesn't need initrd or slows down booting. This patch seems to be a good way to get that. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.