On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 06:46:45PM +0200, Christoph Lohmann wrote: > Greetings. > > On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 18:46:45 +0200 sin <s...@2f30.org> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've hacked together smdev[1]. It is basically mdev with > > a config.def.h. > > > > It does not currently support all of mdev's features. > > > > What do you guys think? > > If it supports all the execution properties of mdev it would be perfect > for me to import it into nldev and make an nldevd, which would be the > true replacement for udevd.
I'll finish up on that and I will ping you once I've got something. > Try to cache the result of regcomp(). This will speed up things in large > trees. For being a competitor. When designing any replacement for udevd, > keep in mind that due to that permission misdesign in Linux your daemon > has to manage some 10 thousand devices in a huge server in under a > minute. This can’t be done linearly and is why udevd keeps a queue > of worker processes. Thanks for the ideas. Will try to implement these.
