linux-kernel - Re: [patch 00/13] devtmpfs patches

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20090509082233.32cbb8e4@infradead.org>
Date:	Sat, 9 May 2009 08:22:33 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	Fabio Comolli <fabio.comolli@...il.com>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 00/13] devtmpfs patches

On Sat, 9 May 2009 08:08:53 -0700
Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> wrote:

> > Well, guess you meant the opposite ;-)
> 
> Heh, yes, sorry about that.  It makes booting faster :)

.. and I don't buy that.

The only argument I've heard is "oh but it's hard". No it's not.
The other argument is "but for more partitions we get other device
numbers"... you know what, that's easy to fix. Just make the 32 bit dev
number consistent. Few lines of code I bet, and it is benefit for
everyone to do that....

Beyond that... this is not needed... but at least call it "devfs".. for
what it is.

(and yes there is very obvious irony)

-- 
Arjan van de Ven 	Intel Open Source Technology Centre
For development, discussion and tips for power savings, 
visit http://www.lesswatts.org
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/