Dave Jones Linux startup analysis

[Vedran Rodic]

http://kernelslacker.livejournal.com/35270.html



Is anybody working on fixing problems in hal?

I'll quote tbe hal section of the analysis:

- hal
"If it's a file, I'll stat it!"
1918 open()'s, 7106 stat's. Wow.
It may be a worthwhile long term goal to only load fdi's for cameras etc lazily, when hotplug sends a notification that one has been plugged in. Even more puzzling..
$ grep 10-usb-card-readers.fdi 01-init | grep open | wc -l
54
We're re-reading stuff we already read. Wtf ?


Vedran Rodic