On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 16:36, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 12:48:56AM +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> > On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 19:17, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> > > > Also, read the threads on the list about udev/hotplug - apparently
> > > > devfsd is going out ...
> > >
> > > as long as you have memory-based /dev you need devfsd even if it is called
> > > differently.
> > >
> >
> > I have not looked at it myself, but as far as I have it, you do not
> > mount /dev, and just need udev/hotplug/libsysfs (not sure on libsysfs).
> > Currently udev still call mknod, but I think Greg said he will fix that
> > in the future.
>
> What's wrong with calling mknod?
>
> I did say I thought about calling sys_mknod directly from udev, but
> that's just a minor change. Is that what you were referring to?
>
Yep. Nothing major - I just want to remember somebody moaning
about too much overhead with udev spawning for every event in
/dev.
Cheers,
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