No more MAKEDEV?

[Dennis Gilmore]

On Thursday 18 September 2008 07:41:12 pm Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Looking at some of the inefficiencies in bootup (in regards to the 5
> second Fedora boot), we came across MAKEDEV. To be short - it's a pig.
>
> The only user of it in Fedora is udev, which uses it for entries in
> /etc/udev/makedev.d. However, there's an already-upstream solution
> of putting device nodes in /lib/udev/devices. Why not just use this,
> remove MAKEDEV, simplify start_udev, and boot faster?

Please

Dennis