From: John Mylchreest <johnm@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] devfs is dead, let's move on
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 20:52:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1120765940.30316.62.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050706224651.GA19853@kroah.com>
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On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 15:46 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> If we can move away from some of our devfs-like names, we stand to
> reclaim a lot of memory from everyone's machines. As an example, if we
> drop all of the tty/pts/vc/vcc symlinks, and just go with the default
> kernel name, we save 2.5Mb of space in tempfs/ramfs. I've done this on
> my machines and everything seems to work just fine (it looks like
> everything that was trying to use a tty node was just using the symlink
> anyway.)
>
> So, anyone have any objections to me changing the default udev naming
> scheme in this manner?
No objections here. I've been waiting fort his move for a little while
now. The only real problems will be with those 2.4 (devfs) users who
refuse to move, maybe this is good enough incentive.
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Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-06 22:46 [gentoo-dev] devfs is dead, let's move on Greg KH
2005-07-06 23:04 ` Greg KH
2005-07-06 23:06 ` Roy Marples
2005-07-06 23:16 ` Greg KH
2005-07-07 0:35 ` Mike Frysinger
2005-07-07 9:34 ` Henrik Brix Andersen
2005-07-07 13:55 ` Martin Schlemmer
2005-07-07 19:44 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2005-07-07 20:06 ` Martin Schlemmer
2005-07-07 20:19 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2005-07-07 20:52 ` [gentoo-dev] " Greg KH
2005-07-07 23:22 ` Martin Schlemmer
2005-07-08 17:06 ` Greg KH
2005-07-08 18:16 ` Stephen Bennett
2005-07-08 18:36 ` Martin Schlemmer
2005-07-08 18:43 ` Martin Schlemmer
2005-07-07 14:18 ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-07-08 17:12 ` Greg KH
2005-07-09 1:00 ` Georgi Georgiev
2005-07-09 2:31 ` Greg KH
2005-08-01 22:14 ` Greg KH
2005-08-01 23:23 ` Kumba
2005-08-01 23:32 ` Greg KH
2005-08-01 23:40 ` Kumba
2005-08-01 23:56 ` Greg KH
2005-07-07 17:39 ` Georgi Georgiev
2005-07-08 17:15 ` Greg KH
2005-07-07 19:52 ` John Mylchreest [this message]
2005-07-07 20:49 ` Greg KH
2005-07-09 3:56 ` Kumba
2005-07-09 4:42 ` Greg KH
2005-07-09 5:22 ` Kumba
2005-07-08 17:49 ` Michiel de Bruijne
2005-07-08 22:25 ` Greg KH
2005-07-08 22:46 ` Michiel de Bruijne
2005-07-08 23:35 ` Martin Schlemmer
2005-07-09 0:44 ` Michiel de Bruijne
2005-07-09 0:58 ` Martin Schlemmer
2005-07-09 2:28 ` Greg KH
2005-07-09 18:34 ` Richard Fish
2005-07-09 18:50 ` Philippe Trottier
2005-07-11 7:47 ` Martin Schlemmer
2005-07-12 22:08 ` Mike Frysinger
2005-07-13 9:00 ` Martin Schlemmer
2005-07-13 12:55 ` Mike Frysinger
2005-07-13 14:44 ` Richard Fish
2005-07-15 23:37 ` Carlos Silva
2005-07-17 13:24 ` Greg KH
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