From linux-kernel Fri May 01 16:17:45 2009 From: Chris Wedgwood Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 16:17:45 +0000 To: linux-kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver-core: devtmpfs - driver core maintained /dev Message-Id: <20090501161745.GA29627 () puku ! stupidest ! org> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124119471827240 On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 09:09:51AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > You usually need to do more. We started out just only doing block > devices, but you also need the memory devices, and console, and a > few others as well. I could add that. It's probably not hard. What's more, it has liblkid support so you could mount by label and a few other things. It seems reasonable that you could add lvm support as well. The main downsides I see right now are: - it's not in the kernel by default - it's actually quite large beacuse i link against glibc It's not clear these are show stoppers long term. > After all that, you have already written another tool, which seems > like overkill when we can do it all in the kernel so much easier and > simpler. I think that's a different argument. Doesn't the same logic imply we shouldn't have udevd? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/