Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release

Greg KH
2005-02-11T01:16:28Z

On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 08:07:23PM -0500, Patrick McFarland wrote:
>
> Please, continue this project and encourage distros to switch to it (when
> it exceeds hotplug in functionality and stability). Ubuntu currently is
> trying to reduce boot time, and I bet something like this would factor in
> (even a few seconds helps).

Thanks for the kind words.

All distros are trying to reduce boot time. I don't think that the
module autoload time has been fingered as taking any serious ammount of
boot time due to it happening in the background of everything else. But
yes, this should help it out (as long as we aren't trading I/O time for
CPU time, like it can happen if you don't have a populated modules.alias
file...)

And yes, I've been in contact with the Ubuntu developer already about
using this code, instead of dietHotplug.

thanks,

greg k-h