Re: udev sysfs docs Re: State of devfs in 2.6?

Måns Rullgård
2003-12-10T20:50:58Z

Witukind <witukind@nsbm.kicks-ass.org> writes:

> On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 20:33:24 +0100
> mru@kth.se (Måns Rullgård) wrote:
>
>> Witukind <witukind@nsbm.kicks-ass.org> writes:
>>
>> > On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 10:39:32 +0100 mru@kth.se (Måns Rullgård) wrote:
>> >
>> >> > Is there a specific case for which people want this feature?
>> >> > Offhand it seems like a slightly odd thing to ask for...
>> >>
>> >> I believe the original motivation for module autoloading was to
>> >save> memory by unloading modules when their devices were unused.
>> >Loading> them automatically on demand made for less trouble for
>> >users, who> didn't have to run modprobe manually to use the sound
>> >card, or> whatever. This could still be a good thing in embedded
>> >systems.>
>> >
>> > I don't see why it wouldn't be a good thing for regular systems
>> > also. Saving memory is usually a good idea.
>>
>> The biggest modules are about 100k. Saving 100k of 1 GB doesn't
>> really seem worth any effort.
>
> I don't have 1 Gb of memory. On my laptop with 16 mb RAM saving 100k
> is worth the effort.

In that case I don't classify your laptop as a regular system any
more. I remember saying that the space saving could be worthwhile on
small systems a while back.

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