"mdev -s" fails to create /dev entries

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Sat Jul 12 17:53:29 UTC 2008


On Saturday 12 July 2008 13:22, Holland, John wrote:
> > > >(This is glossing over the fact that searching through an arbitrarily 
> > > >large /sys tree could be very slow on certain systems, and a lot of embedded 
> > > >stuff is using 100 mhz processors and such, and prefer mdev to udev for the 
> > > >_speed_ as much as for the memory savings.)
> > > 
> > > You're right... However, those tiny systems normally do not have the number
> > > of devices/modules as the others. If you wish, we could leave dirAction and
> > > redefine it not to walk through certain directories ('/modules/').
> > > 
> > > For me, speed is secondary. I'd prefer that mdev works as intended on many
> > > kernels, w/o having to worry if mdev will work on some forthcoming kernel.
> > 
> > You cannot neglect other user's needs like that.
> 
> I understand... I've placed proper function before optimization.

This implies that currently something works improperly.
This is not true as fas as I know.
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