Re: udev and devfs - The final word

[Pascal Schmidt]

On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Greg KH wrote:

> You would not have any "extra" overhead if you don't add any new devices
> to your system.  udev only runs when /sbin/hotplug runs. As for extra
> space on your disk, this email thread is almost as big as the udev
> binary is :)

Well, but if random device numbers become a reality, udev would have
to run at boot time or I wouldn't get usable device nodes. So there
is some setup complexity (because so far I don't need a correctly setup
hotplug system at all). Not much of a problem, granted, distributions
will do this for most of us and only a few people will do it by hand.

-- 
Ciao,
Pascal

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