No more MAKEDEV?

[Harald Hoyer]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:41:12 -0700
> Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> 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


I switched from /lib/udev/devices to MAKEDEV!

Complaints have been filed in bugzilla, because /lib should not contain devices.
a
# grep -r foo /lib
could do harm!

selinux does not like devices in /lib also.



> 
> Step 2) can be done later... to make people who guard freezes less
> nervous
> 
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