On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Greg KH wrote:
> You would not have any "extra" overhead if you don't add any new devices
> to your system. udev only runs when /sbin/hotplug runs. As for extra
> space on your disk, this email thread is almost as big as the udev
> binary is :)
Well, but if random device numbers become a reality, udev would have
to run at boot time or I wouldn't get usable device nodes. So there
is some setup complexity (because so far I don't need a correctly setup
hotplug system at all). Not much of a problem, granted, distributions
will do this for most of us and only a few people will do it by hand.
--
Ciao,
Pascal
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 05:17:50PM +0100, Pascal Schmidt wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > You would not have any "extra" overhead if you don't add any new devices
> > to your system. udev only runs when /sbin/hotplug runs. As for extra
> > space on your disk, this email thread is almost as big as the udev
> > binary is :)
>
> Well, but if random device numbers become a reality, udev would have
> to run at boot time or I wouldn't get usable device nodes.
Exactly, it's on the TODO list :)
thanks,
greg k-h