>>>>> "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 _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
