From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752168AbZHLWK0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:10:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752061AbZHLWK0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:10:26 -0400 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:54487 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752020AbZHLWKZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:10:25 -0400 Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:08:33 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Robert Schwebel Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kay Sievers , Jan Blunck , gregkh@suse.de, Harald Hoyer , Scott James Remnant Subject: Re: [PATCH] Driver Core: devtmpfs - kernel-maintained tmpfs-based /dev Message-ID: <20090812220833.GB18647@kroah.com> References: <20090805171513.GA10443@kroah.com> <20090812213348.GY13320@pengutronix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090812213348.GY13320@pengutronix.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:33:48PM +0200, Robert Schwebel wrote: > On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 10:15:13AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > Here's the devtmpfs patch again. > > As an embedded distro maintainer, I'd really like such an approach. With > ptxdist, we can today build the complete rootfs for an embedded system > without root permissions - just if we want to nfs-root boot the boards > during development, it doesn't work, because you have to create > /dev/console, /dev/null and /dev/zero and that works only for root. > > On slow embedded systems (i.e. ARM 200 MHz), note that boot times are > often much slower than on full-blown x86. So any speed improvement is > welcome here as well. That's good to hear, thanks for the response, I appreciate it. greg k-h