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 1SUDAK-00060x-Ki for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 15 May 2012 08:31:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5FDE5E08E5; Tue, 15 May 2012 08:31:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gg0-f181.google.com (mail-gg0-f181.google.com [209.85.161.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C72FE086E for ; Tue, 15 May 2012 08:30:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ggnv5 with SMTP id v5so1869818ggn.40 for ; Tue, 15 May 2012 01:30:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ioOqoxrRA+EBY0A7nnTxFvL7U4fxhMyWJt4wj7q/s7E=; b=HCjmNLingLtRKrsg/tsC8/3OH7p/gRvhte+eYai/gzHUM40mS9l91bhZ/IjfUj16XZ 8Q4dsMi3Pw4MKABtMjQ7kdi3k9tQFx0eXIk8xN+Bb6h62i/HhQUvK198NWAffiQsqnB/ AT9uJJuX4LgD+mkME2RZe2g3XRiGDD1/bRw4o/G/AMmf6l3xJu+5fpnPmlqg0DwtrJrD D7DP+0jwRDxL4ToAX3tA6Lx3gIXkiA9OtDUkuWP12ecfk+YtMr8Jb2wkuP5WT2PnSjwZ K54jbfWaVtWiJKe4Z7atfyq+wtXOUyJuedaBF5pR11sFQu5ncCgThoWd6tDpAv2YbFFi sdIg== 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 Received: by 10.236.125.234 with SMTP id z70mr11033023yhh.18.1337070621862; Tue, 15 May 2012 01:30:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.4.12 with HTTP; Tue, 15 May 2012 01:30:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1337063577.4708.89.camel@TesterBox.tester.ca> References: <20120514075353.GB5819@waltdnes.org> <20120515012336.GB18105@kroah.com> <20120515050557.GA15805@waltdnes.org> <1337063577.4708.89.camel@TesterBox.tester.ca> Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 03:30:21 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Stability of /sys api From: =?UTF-8?B?Q2FuZWsgUGVsw6FleiBWYWxkw6lz?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 5632b021-3509-43f7-9763-568e82aa7e6c X-Archives-Hash: 192d40527868f23eb3a6ce4e66b6cfbc On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 1:32 AM, Olivier Cr=C3=AAte wro= te: > On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 01:05 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: >> =C2=A0 I *DON'T WANT* "a serious framework", I want a lightweight device >> manager... period... end of story. =C2=A0Stick with the unix principle o= f one >> app doing one thing well. =C2=A0mdev 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. I agree. And I don't believe people "who don't want to easily use USB sticks or digital cameras or gsm dongles or really any modern hardware" qualify as "the vast majority of people". Regards. --=20 Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingenier=C3=ADa de la Computaci=C3=B3n Universidad Nacional Aut=C3=B3noma de M=C3=A9xico