Re: [PATCH] Driver Core: devtmpfs - kernel-maintained tmpfs-based /dev

[Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel@pengutronix.de>]

On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 10:15:13AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> Here's the devtmpfs patch again.

As an embedded distro maintainer, I'd really like such an approach. With
ptxdist, we can today build the complete rootfs for an embedded system
without root permissions - just if we want to nfs-root boot the boards
during development, it doesn't work, because you have to create
/dev/console, /dev/null and /dev/zero and that works only for root.

On slow embedded systems (i.e. ARM 200 MHz), note that boot times are
often much slower than on full-blown x86. So any speed improvement is
welcome here as well.

rsc
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