From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753776AbZEIPKg (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 May 2009 11:10:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751534AbZEIPK0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 May 2009 11:10:26 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f176.google.com ([209.85.219.176]:49543 "EHLO mail-ew0-f176.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751440AbZEIPKZ convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 May 2009 11:10:25 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=aVot6e9UjqJoB52sQYFcW/fS4oN7qF5uUU/utebxPx9bCHZzk9DqoRa5PO3+QL7bks pcjqePKRgDuPjUW2HCbDARXqlVrTxijEayCFw38No2F8YXSWd1xDsvzJvX11qDhMAN/U s42GwH9jHh9xXDFHJhGcpog5NE6gsbP92evaU= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20090509143742.GA27663@kroah.com> References: <20090509143742.GA27663@kroah.com> Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 17:10:24 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [patch 00/13] devtmpfs patches From: Fabio Comolli To: Greg KH Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi. On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Greg KH wrote: > Here's the latest version of the devtmpfs patch, broken up into 13 > different patches to make it easier to review and merge properly. > > This series does the following: >  - creates a new callback within the driver core to allow drivers and >    subsystems to provide a name for their subsystem to properly reflect >    what userspace should use for their device nodes.  This allows for >    things like the sound/ and input/ subdirectories to be properly told >    to userspace.  Note these names and subdirectories are the ones that >    have been used for years, and are standardized across all >    distributions and synced up with the LANANA naming scheme which is >    specified by LSB.  We aren't creating anything new here. >  - fills in the callbacks by the various subsystems that need to define >    it, including the misc device layer.  This is the majority of the >    patches in the series. >  - adds the devtmpfs core code.  Description of what this is, why it is >    needed, and how it works is within this patch. > > All of these patches have been tested for a number of weeks now in > SuSE's kernel trees and have proved to increase boot time a measurable > ammount (a few seconds at the very least) Well, guess you meant the opposite ;-) > on both traditional systems > (servers / desktops) as well as on netbooks using a non-SuSE based > userspace infrastructure. > > This feature also allows rescue systems to work properly by allowing > systems to boot into /bin/bash with full access to all of their device > nodes.  It is also a big win on embedded systems with no local users yet > they need to provide dynamic names as their hardware configuration can > be changed by external forces. > > All of the previous objections to this patch series seems to have been > properly addressed, but as always, comments are welcome, just make them > substantial please :) > > These patches are now in the driver-core git tree of quilt patches. > > thanks, > > greg k-h > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >