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Date:	Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:18:55 +0800
From:	Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	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

2009/8/6 Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>:
> Here's the devtmpfs patch again.  For .32 it's a simple and clean patch.

I also prefer devtmpfs.

Base on devtmpfs, we can remove polling for being ready of some
asynchronous root device(usb storage, mmc, ....)
easily before mounting rootfs.

      http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124955163908015&w=2
      http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124955166508077&w=2

Thanks.

-- 
Lei Ming
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