Re: [GIT PATCH] Remove devfs from 2.6.12-git

From: Miles Bader
Date: Thu Jun 23 2005 - 03:30:53 EST


On 6/23/05, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Not that I know of. If you want to do this, compare the original udev
> releases that were around 5kb of code, as the nice features it has today
> are stuff that devfs can not support at all.

That wouldn't be such an effective tool for convincing people to
switch though... :-) "Look this obsolete version is much smaller!"

If udev has really bloated up due to whizzy new features, how hard
would it be to compile a stripped-down version? [Well I should look
at the busybox support somebody mentioned -- perhaps it's exactly
that.]

-Miles
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