Re: [PATCH] Driver Core: devtmpfs - kernel-maintained tmpfs-based /dev

[David Dillow]

On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 17:46 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > It makes the userspace boot process much simpler and easier to maintain,
> > as well as providing a way to handle rescue disks and images trivially,
> > and it makes the kernel _less_ dependant on the early userspace bootup
> > scripts.
> 
> As a initrd less kernel user I can really only agree: getting rid
> of the udev-in-initrd requirement would be a big step forward
> in usability. Typically I always have to pre populate 
> a on disk /dev manually first to get my kernels to boot.

If you use mount by label or UUID, you still need udev (or other tools)
in the initrd to find the right disk, correct? And for distros that want
to support that, does this really reduce the amount of code in the
initrd?
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