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Message-ID: <87ljlxhrnr.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:46:00 +0200 From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> To: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>, Jan Blunck <jblunck@...e.de>, gregkh@...e.de, Harald Hoyer <harald@...hat.com>, Scott James Remnant <scott@...ntu.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Driver Core: devtmpfs - kernel-maintained tmpfs-based /dev Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> writes: > > It makes the userspace boot process much simpler and easier to maintain, > as well as providing a way to handle rescue disks and images trivially, > and it makes the kernel _less_ dependant on the early userspace bootup > scripts. As a initrd less kernel user I can really only agree: getting rid of the udev-in-initrd requirement would be a big step forward in usability. Typically I always have to pre populate a on disk /dev manually first to get my kernels to boot. > And then there's the great reason Kay previously stated, "if sysfs has > all the names, numbers, and device properties, why would we need complex > userspace to have the nodes?" Exactly. -Andi -- ak@...ux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only. -- 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/
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