Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 0.1 release

Greg KH
2003-04-12T07:54:03Z

On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 03:29:20PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 12:07:17PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > Problem is I don't think we can use D-BUS messages during early boot,
> > before init is called, so we still have to be able to handle startup
> > issues. But hopefully the D-BUS code can be small enough to possibly be
> > used in this manner, I haven't checked that out yet.
>
> I'm not sure what the threshold for small enough is, but I'll give you
> an analysis of D-BUS size.

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Thanks for the information. Hm, that seems a bit big for what I want to do,
but might be workable.

Oh, and to compare sizes, with udev linked against klibc (static link)
it comes out to a whopping big 6004 bytes:
$ size udev
text data bss dec hex filename
5572 4 392 5968 1750 udev

thanks,

greg k-h