On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 04:23:49PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
<snip>
I'll respond to your comments later, it's too early...
> A question. I can't apply this to 2.6.12, it fails in
> drivers/base/class.c -- the main portion i think. What's
> this patch against?
2.6.12-git5, sorry I should have mentioned that.
> And another question. Why it isn't possible to use
> plain tmpfs for this sort of things?
What do you mean? What's wrong with a ramfs based fs? To use tmpfs
would require a lot more work. But if you want to do it, I'll gladly
take patches :)
> Why to create another filesystem, instead of just using current
> tmpfs and call mknod/unlink on it as appropriate?
Um, that's about all that this code does.
> This same tmpfs can be used by udev too (to create that "policy"-based
> names), and it gives us all the directories and other stuff...
udev doesn't need a kernel specific fs.
thanks,
greg k-h
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