linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Driver Core: devtmpfs - kernel-maintained tmpfs-based /dev

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Message-ID: <20090807151320.GA26639@kroah.com>
Date:	Fri, 7 Aug 2009 08:13:20 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Al Boldi <a1426z@...ab.com>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	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

On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 03:49:21PM +0300, Al Boldi wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> > It's much faster than udev, and is equivalent to a static /dev with the
> > exception that the group and permission settings that you are used to.
> > udev then needs to come along and make those settings, but that's so
> > frickin fast it's amazing.
> 
> Sounds great!
> 
> > So, test it out and see if you want to verify this.
> 
> Ok, can you post a patch against .30?

If you look in the lkml archives, the first versions of this were posted
against .30 if you wish to try them out.

thanks,

greg k-h
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