On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 08:41:29AM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> What devfs and udev can do, and a static dev cannot, is names independent
> of order of detection.
devfs can not do that.
> As for ressources, it is an illusion to think that user space means
> less ressources. A demon means page tables and a kernel stack. That
> 12K unswappable memory in the best case.
You don't have to run the udevd process if you are worried about an
extra process in your kernel tables. Although this is the first time I
have heard anyone voice the "oh no, not another userspace task running"
point :)
thanks,
greg k-h
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