On Monday 05 December 2005 17:05, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 04:47:55PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote:
> > So no in-kernel filesystem can get this right without help from userspace
> > (even devfs had devfsd), and as soon as you've got a userspace daemon to
> > tell the kernel who is who you might as well do the whole thing there,
> > now that the kernel is exporting everyting _else_ we need to know via
> > /sys and /sbin/hotplug.
>
> /sbin/hotplug is suboptimal. Even a pretty fast machine is slowed down
> pretty significantly by the ~thousand fork and exec that take place during
> startup.
Why do you need hotplug events on startup? Can't you just scan /sys for "dev"
entries do the initial populate of /dev from that?
> For the most common devices -- common tty, pty, floppy, etc that
> every system has, this is a plain waste of resources -- otherwise known as
> bloat.
I get those from a scan of /sys, and only care about hotplug events that come
in after that. (Could just be me...)
> -ben
Rob
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