Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760088AbZANO2V (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:28:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754338AbZANO2D (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:28:03 -0500 Received: from hawking.rebel.net.au ([203.20.69.83]:44751 "EHLO hawking.rebel.net.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753332AbZANO2B (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:28:01 -0500 Message-ID: <496DF66B.9050605@davidnewall.com> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:57:55 +1030 From: David Newall User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080227) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Philippe De Muyter CC: Tomasz Chmielewski , LKML Subject: Re: linux kernel without file system References: <496DA678.1090701@wpkg.org> <20090114093422.GA9771@frolo.macqel> In-Reply-To: <20090114093422.GA9771@frolo.macqel> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 735 Lines: 15 Philippe De Muyter wrote: > Actually, I was thinking about reducing the footprint of my kernel by > removing all the fs-related system calls, so the problem is not where > the file-system is, but how to access (serial) devices without giving their > "/dev/..." name. That's fighting the UNIX design, in "which everything is a file." You can remove all of the disk-based filesystems, but if you try to remove open, close, read or write there'll be almost nothing that you can usefully do. -- 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/