From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SUOOa-0000yo-B0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 15 May 2012 20:31:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 48012E0899; Tue, 15 May 2012 20:30:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport-out.teksavvy.com (ironport-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.143.162]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA65EE071E for ; Tue, 15 May 2012 20:29:50 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApUIACxOgk/O+K7C/2dsb2JhbABDuCMDgQyBCIIJAQEFOhwzCxgcEhQlN4gOtjKLMTCBVYJBYwSNb4d8hgKIWIFdgwOBOQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,391,1330923600"; d="scan'208";a="180413448" Received: from 206-248-174-194.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([206.248.174.194]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with SMTP; 15 May 2012 16:29:49 -0400 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 15 May 2012 16:29:01 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 16:29:01 -0400 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Stability of /sys api Message-ID: <20120515202901.GA1899@waltdnes.org> References: <20120514075353.GB5819@waltdnes.org> <20120515012336.GB18105@kroah.com> <20120515050557.GA15805@waltdnes.org> <1337063577.4708.89.camel@TesterBox.tester.ca> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1337063577.4708.89.camel@TesterBox.tester.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: e8b392d6-095a-4bc2-aa8f-7e13b6c1afc5 X-Archives-Hash: 46c12baa429b81e4e7d068d33bc555f9 On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 02:32:57AM -0400, Olivier Cr?te wrote > On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 01:05 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > I *DON'T WANT* "a serious framework", I want a lightweight device > > manager... period... end of story. Stick with the unix principle of one > > app doing one thing well. mdev is enough for the vast majority of people. > > For the people who don't want to easily use USB sticks or digital > cameras or gsm dongles or really any modern hardware, I'm sure mdev is > fine. A static /dev is even fine for you probably. Huh!?!?!? USB sticks work just fine, thank you, with mdev. I also regularly backup my mdev-based machine via rsync to an external drive via USB. And yes my camera does show up as a USB mass storage device. Ditto for my HTC Desire. -- Walter Dnes