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Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver-core: devtmpfs - driver core maintained /dev
From: Chris Wedgwood <cw () f00f ! org>
Date: 2009-05-01 16:17:45
Message-ID: 20090501161745.GA29627 () puku ! stupidest ! org
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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?
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