If mdev is used as kernel hotplug helper and the system generates many hotplug events it will quickly consume considerable resources because a process is forked for each event and, if the mdev.seq feature is used, they must also coordinate among each other. While the uevent applet mitigates some of the resource problems you still have to pay the cost for a fork/exec and parsing of mdev.conf for each event.
The following patches add an optional daemon mode to mdev that let's mdev listen on a netlink socket for kernel hotplug events. This mode works much like udev and avoids the fork/exec/parse overhead on many events. _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list busybox@busybox.net http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
