On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:41:12 -0700 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
