Re: [PATCH] major devfs shrink based on tmpfs and lookup traps

From: Chris Wedgwood
Date: Fri Nov 05 2004 - 16:15:31 EST


On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 02:21:36AM -0800, Adam J. Richter wrote:

> This patch is a replacement implementation of devfs. This patch
> combined the tmpfs "lookup traps" patch that is required for certain
> devfs functionality are a net deletion of more than 1800 lines of
> code[1]. The code that actually remains in fs/devfs has a
> .text+.data size of under 3kB.

wow, that's pretty neat.... but isn't devfs going to be killed off
sooner or later anyhow?

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