On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 04:21:26PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 15:57, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 09:56:10PM +0100, Paul Chavent wrote:
> >> I'am working on an embedded gnu/linux system that allow to capture an 
> >> ieee1394 stream.
> >>
> >> The system is compound of a kernel, a basic initrd 
> >> (libc,libgcc,busybox,libdc1394,...) and my app.
> >>
> >> I use the new firewire stack.
> >>
> >> As my system is very minimalist, i tought to create the nodes in /dev at 
> >> the moment of building my initrd.
> >>
> >> But when i needed to modify my kernel configuration, it has changed the 
> >> major number of /dev/fw*.
> >>
> >> It's not really important for the definitive system (it will be
> >> freeze), but i wonder how to solve this issue for my future works ?
> >>
> >> I don't need hotplug, i just need to fill /dev at startup (coldplug).
> >> The target is an embedded device, so it should be easy to
> >> build/configure/install, and lightweight.
> >>
> >> For those reasons i don't want to use udev.
> >
> > Why, is udev somehow not "lightweight"?
> 
> in comparison, it is absolutely not

Heh, in comparison to devtmpfs, yes, good point :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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