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

From: Miles Bader
Date: Thu Jun 23 2005 - 03:30:47 EST


On 6/23/05, Mike Bell <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Greg gave me an "I assume so" estimate that udev was smaller by excluding
> the size of sysfs a while back. If you include sysfs in udev's overhead
> then I believe devfs wins handily, but I haven't done the numbers to
> prove it so my estimate is no better. I'm just basing it on sysfs being
> absolutely huge, in linux-tiny terms.

Is it? I always just sort of assumed that sysfs kernel support would
be more or less equivalent in size to devfs kernel support.

-Miles
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