Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 18:05:02 -0500
From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
To: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel
Message-ID: <20051205230502.GB12955@kvack.org>
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On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 04:47:55PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote:
> So no in-kernel filesystem can get this right without help from userspace 
> (even devfs had devfsd), and as soon as you've got a userspace daemon to tell 
> the kernel who is who you might as well do the whole thing there, now that 
> the kernel is exporting everyting _else_ we need to know via /sys 
> and /sbin/hotplug.

/sbin/hotplug is suboptimal.  Even a pretty fast machine is slowed down 
pretty significantly by the ~thousand fork and exec that take place during 
startup.  For the most common devices -- common tty, pty, floppy, etc that 
every system has, this is a plain waste of resources -- otherwise known as 
bloat.

		-ben
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