devfs vs udev/hotplug

Hiten Pandya hmp at backplane.com
Wed Apr 21 22:28:44 PDT 2004


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Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 02:16:59PM -0500, Dave Leimbach wrote:
> 
>>>    Devices are not created and destroyed all that often, so performance 
>>>    isn't really an issue.
>>
>>Sure.. unless you like to plug in and unplug your USB keyboard a lot and very
>>fast... 
> 
> 
> You know, that is asking for trouble :) IIRC the USB stack still has
> some problems with fast attachment/detachment of devices.

	I don't think it is that much of a major issue/trouble that
	it would hold back development of such a daemon/facility.
	One can always introduce a quirks table! *me ducks* ;-)

		-Hiten
		Hiten Pandya
		hmp at xxxxxxxxxxxxx





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