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On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 10:05:52PM +0100, karl@××××××××.se wrote |
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> Alec McKinnon: |
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> > On 19/01/2016 18:51, karl@××××××××.se wrote: |
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> ... |
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> > > I have had no pain useing an old plain /dev. What's the pain ? |
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> > take a machine running a desktop. Plug in a usb printer. Where's your node? |
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> To find that out I'd investigate /sys/bus/usb, either directly or via |
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> usb-devices or some other program. I guess "some other program" is |
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> probably udev or similar for you, it might not be for me. |
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> If it is a usb disk, I just look at the output of sg_map -x -i, and then |
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> decide what to do. |
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> > That's the whole point of a dynamic dev manager, it responds to devices |
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> > changes that occur on normal modern machines and does TheRightThing(tm) |
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> > - currently defined as whatever the dev-manager config tells it to do. |
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> Ok, I don't have any usb printer, all my printers are network connected |
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> and do handle postscript and lpd. |
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> And my "dev-manager" tells the system to do nothing till the owner of |
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> the system tells it to do so, which is the right thing for me. |
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> The right thing might be something else for you. |
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I'm the ****-disturber who started the following wiki entries. There |
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have since been many contributions by other users... |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev/Automount_USB |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev/Automount_USB/automount |
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A minimal system running busybox probably also has mdev built in. |
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It's "dynamic" and can automount if desired. But if you tell it not to |
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automount, it won't. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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