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On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 15:46 -0700, Greg KH wrote: |
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> If we can move away from some of our devfs-like names, we stand to |
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> reclaim a lot of memory from everyone's machines. As an example, if we |
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> drop all of the tty/pts/vc/vcc symlinks, and just go with the default |
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> kernel name, we save 2.5Mb of space in tempfs/ramfs. I've done this on |
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> my machines and everything seems to work just fine (it looks like |
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> everything that was trying to use a tty node was just using the symlink |
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> anyway.) |
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> So, anyone have any objections to me changing the default udev naming |
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> scheme in this manner? |
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No objections here. I've been waiting fort his move for a little while |
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now. The only real problems will be with those 2.4 (devfs) users who |
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refuse to move, maybe this is good enough incentive. |
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