>>>>> "Laurent" == Laurent Bercot <[email protected]> writes:

Hi,

 Laurent>  I personally don't like devtmpfs because it goes precisely
 Laurent> against the concept of udev in the first place: it adds code
 Laurent> in the kernel to handle things that could very well be done in
 Laurent> userspace. The justification I have heard for devtmpfs is "You
 Laurent> might want to have a dynamic writable /dev in RAM and a
 Laurent> read-only /", which is no justification to me because I have
 Laurent> been doing exactly that for years without devtmpfs. It only
 Laurent> requires doing a bit of setup in process 1 before executing
 Laurent> the real long-running init, a concept that's surprisingly hard
 Laurent> to get through some skulls.

Sure, but devtmpfs is simpler and faster (mdev -s can take a while on
slow hw). For simple embedded systems it is very nice.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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