From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262581AbVFWII6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2005 04:08:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262774AbVFWIGn (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2005 04:06:43 -0400 Received: from nome.ca ([65.61.200.81]:4544 "HELO gobo.nome.ca") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262507AbVFWGfH (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2005 02:35:07 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 23:34:57 -0700 From: Mike Bell To: Miles Bader Cc: Greg KH , 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: <20050623063457.GB955@mikebell.org> Mail-Followup-To: Mike Bell , Miles Bader , Greg KH , Andrew Morton , Greg KH , torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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/1.5.9i 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: > BTW, has anyone done a comparison of the space usage of udev vs. devfs > (including size of code etc....)? Greg gave me an "I assume so" estimate that udev was smaller by excluding the size of sysfs a while back. If you include sysfs in udev's overhead then I believe devfs wins handily, but I haven't done the numbers to prove it so my estimate is no better. I'm just basing it on sysfs being absolutely huge, in linux-tiny terms.