Re: udev device naming policy concerns

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org>]

Roger Leigh <roger@whinlatter.uklinux.net> wrote:
[...]
> The current single directory with a bazillion device nodes in it
> doesn't scale well.  Not only is it difficult to find the nodes
> actually available on your system, it also has the potential to hurt
> performance.  For example, an "ls /dev" on my system shows 1439 device
> nodes, of which perhaps 10% are actually available and 5% have
> actually ever been used. 
[...]

With udev you only have the device-nodes actually available on the
respective machine afaik.
                cu andreas
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