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From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Stability of /sys api
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 20:31:00
Message-Id: 20120515202901.GA1899@waltdnes.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Stability of /sys api by "Olivier Crête"
1 On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 02:32:57AM -0400, Olivier Cr?te wrote
2 > On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 01:05 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
3 > > I *DON'T WANT* "a serious framework", I want a lightweight device
4 > > manager... period... end of story. Stick with the unix principle of one
5 > > app doing one thing well. mdev is enough for the vast majority of people.
6 >
7 > For the people who don't want to easily use USB sticks or digital
8 > cameras or gsm dongles or really any modern hardware, I'm sure mdev is
9 > fine. A static /dev is even fine for you probably.
10
11 Huh!?!?!? USB sticks work just fine, thank you, with mdev. I also
12 regularly backup my mdev-based machine via rsync to an external drive
13 via USB. And yes my camera does show up as a USB mass storage device.
14 Ditto for my HTC Desire.
15
16 --
17 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Stability of /sys api Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o>