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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:31:52 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: David Dillow <dave@thedillows.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Driver Core: devtmpfs - kernel-maintained tmpfs-based
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> So use Eric/Arjan's program that does it in 60ms -- you get a
> dynamic /dev, no initrd, fast boot, and no kernel changes required.

That would likely need initrd at least on the distro I use which uses
device files very early.

-Andi

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