Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758569AbZIQQfq (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:35:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754305AbZIQQfp (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:35:45 -0400 Received: from zelda.netsplit.com ([87.194.19.211]:44373 "EHLO zelda.netsplit.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753300AbZIQQfp (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:35:45 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove broken by design and by implementation devtmpfs maintenance disaster From: Scott James Remnant To: Alan Cox Cc: Kay Sievers , "Eric W. Biederman" , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartmann In-Reply-To: <20090917141303.428fe73c@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> References: <20090917141303.428fe73c@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-zv+tMy1/hBPF6qGZDaNB" Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:35:32 +0100 Message-Id: <1253205332.4718.9.camel@quest> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1617 Lines: 51 --=-zv+tMy1/hBPF6qGZDaNB Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 14:13 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > > * A static dev is faster. > >=20 > > A static /dev is unreliable and unpredictable, and can not be used in > > any not very limited and controlled environment. It's pure theory for >=20 > Moblin appears to be the fastest boot and doesn't use it. I fact Arjan > seems pretty anti >=20 And of the "ordinary" distros, Ubuntu has the fastest boot and we are very keen to use devtmpfs, and I am very pro. I don't really see the issue here. If Arjan doesn't want to use devtmpfs for Moblin, he doesn't have to. We want to use devtmpfs for Ubuntu, and I'm pretty sure that SuSE, Fedora and RedHat all want to too based on the signed off and tested-by of the patch. If there are bugs, they can be fixed as we go. It certainly works for me, and we've even found udev bugs as a result of it. Scott --=20 Scott James Remnant scott@canonical.com --=-zv+tMy1/hBPF6qGZDaNB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkqyZVQACgkQSnQiFMl4yK4G7gCfck+R0TWXqIee3UNdaAQhuDuA pCoAniU2r9eoK/qXnloe8UyUQcpK/deh =vAtT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-zv+tMy1/hBPF6qGZDaNB-- -- 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/