Re: [RFC 0/6] Backing Store for sysfs

Pascal Schmidt
2003-10-07T00:15:29Z

On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Greg KH wrote:

> Systems like this are not uncommon, I agree. But also for systems like
> this, the current code works just fine (small number of fixed devices.)
> I haven't heard anyone complain about memory usage for a normal system
> (99.9% of the systems out there.)

I'd like my kernel to have as small a footprint as possible. Allocated
memory that is almost never used is waste. It may not be much, but
"add little to little and you will have a big pile". Whatever, we're
not the big pile yet and I'm not concerned enough to cook up patches.

> Also, remember that in 2.7 I'm going to make device numbers random so
> you will have to use something like udev to control your /dev tree.
> Slowly weaning yourself off of a static /dev during the next 2 years or
> so might be a good idea :)

I guess by then we'll have an excellent udev version with no known
bugs. ;) However, requiring more and more packages to be installed just
to boot a system is also not something I like much.

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Ciao,
Pascal