[PATCH] Speed up modprobe and MAKEDEV

[Linus Walleij]

On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, Jakub Jelinek wrote:

> I thought I'd share my modprobe and MAKEDEV speedup patches with
> a wider community so folks can experiment with them, especially seeing
> Mandriva folks playing with turning modprobe into a daemon because of its
> slowness.

GOOD WORK.

A common approach in the embedded community is to let go of modprobe 
altogether and only use compiled-in modules and the occasional insmod to 
speed things up. (Which is quite easy when you know your hardware, but 
also messy to maintain.)

With a sufficiently fast modprobe that need should go away. I hope we'll 
soon be there with these patches and perhaps a few more jumping in.

Linus