From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263014AbVFWIIz (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2005 04:08:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262514AbVFWIEm (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2005 04:04:42 -0400 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:2190 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262457AbVFWG0l (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2005 02:26:41 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 23:26:27 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Miles Bader Cc: Mike Bell , Andrew Morton , Greg KH , torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] Remove devfs from 2.6.12-git Message-ID: <20050623062627.GB11638@kroah.com> References: <20050621062926.GB15062@kroah.com> <20050620235403.45bf9613.akpm@osdl.org> <20050621151019.GA19666@kroah.com> <20050623010031.GB17453@mikebell.org> <20050623045959.GB10386@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 03:14:08PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Greg KH writes: > > And again, for embedded systems, there are packages to build it and put > > it in initramfs. People have already done the work for you. > > BTW, has anyone done a comparison of the space usage of udev vs. devfs > (including size of code etc....)? Not that I know of. If you want to do this, compare the original udev releases that were around 5kb of code, as the nice features it has today are stuff that devfs can not support at all. thanks, greg k-h