On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 08:44:49PM -0500, Eric Youngdale wrote:
> I must admit that I find the arguments have merit. Perhaps the
> most important point (which someone else made) is that on a small system
> (where you would only have one or two scsi devices in the first place)
> wouldn't need to use devfs at all.
We're talking about less than 64 kByte over all, aren't we? If you need
kernel floating point emulation, that's about the same size. So what us
an actual objection to a kernel Configure switch that reads "use devfs
instead of common dev"? I'm regularly having kernel sizes (compressed!)
of no less than 550 k for 2.0.36 or 750 k for 2.2.3 (which has
virtually anything I could mount compiled-in, except Amiga FFS, msdos
(VFAT is compiled-in) and sound card drivers (due to PnP)
--
Matthias Andree
"Users never read manuals."
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