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From: Miles Bader <snogglethorpe@gmail.com>
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On 6/23/05, Mike Bell <kernel@mikebell.org> wrote:
> Greg gave me an "I assume so" estimate that udev was smaller by excluding
> the size of sysfs a while back. If you include sysfs in udev's overhead
> then I believe devfs wins handily, but I haven't done the numbers to
> prove it so my estimate is no better. I'm just basing it on sysfs being
> absolutely huge, in linux-tiny terms.

Is it?  I always just sort of assumed that sysfs kernel support would
be more or less equivalent in size to devfs kernel support.

-Miles
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