No more MAKEDEV?

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:41:12 -0700
Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> 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?

this btw can be done in two steps; 
Step 1) Put the standard static device nodes in /lib/udev/devices
Step 2) Once MAKEDEV no longer is used as a result, obsolete it

Step 1) is obviously simple and can be done with no risk ... and will
in practice make MAKEDEV unused and gives you the boottime gain

Step 2) can be done later... to make people who guard freezes less
nervous


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