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 1SUOfs-0003HO-4w for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 15 May 2012 20:48:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4F2EFE08A2; Tue, 15 May 2012 20:48:43 +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 5C559E0841 for ; Tue, 15 May 2012 20:47:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ggnv5 with SMTP id v5so33878ggn.40 for ; Tue, 15 May 2012 13:47:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=DNLt3jhCeNyh4QpsuDuphrCusNhzxezLlveBbWMxljQ=; b=VQdz3Reb3upDMa7fwibBroEd67YkkiHoGCMgI2wEkOLeUmD6LGJg+J+FLnRdt9pQyK uWuxloHm8vvE1gtyf584qjFJh3lxKB8pR9CGiWAyGraAdVXEWcdeu/7MgLnB0qUxjoBQ WtHGcEUQ024gbr3nIftAHWx3kdFskpuR24MpoKbXJ/mD5NRnYnsNFu4hY+wR6pUYTf2Q xi61vUKtTghbk9KC1ju8qvSf8G0ZeDSDblJY68phYaQlRFH0F8qNQ8xUX+yUBI9rqL+O Rdn9qZjeGAJYCW5Qpdo/yO2T7mlQQ4E2BHrmVIfUL46ZJ98kMIwMg/T1U9p3t0lQDsFc 2KyQ== Received: by 10.42.138.200 with SMTP id d8mr167546icu.45.1337114878633; Tue, 15 May 2012 13:47:58 -0700 (PDT) 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 Sender: nirbheek.chauhan@gmail.com Received: by 10.231.183.9 with HTTP; Tue, 15 May 2012 13:47:38 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20120515202901.GA1899@waltdnes.org> References: <20120514075353.GB5819@waltdnes.org> <20120515012336.GB18105@kroah.com> <20120515050557.GA15805@waltdnes.org> <1337063577.4708.89.camel@TesterBox.tester.ca> <20120515202901.GA1899@waltdnes.org> From: Nirbheek Chauhan Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 02:17:38 +0530 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 035mxKJzMYP6b63WB3zDFCdgWxE Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Stability of /sys api To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 542a852b-cc92-4a21-87d8-2567cb720c6e X-Archives-Hash: f5fbcaed8e0a484e0dcb0978a49fbb68 On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 1:59 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: > 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: >> > =C2=A0 I *DON'T WANT* "a serious framework", I want a lightweight devi= ce >> > manager... period... end of story. =C2=A0Stick with the unix principle= of one >> > app doing one thing well. =C2=A0mdev is enough for the vast majority o= f 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. > > =C2=A0Huh!?!?!? =C2=A0USB sticks work just fine, thank you, with mdev. = =C2=A0I also > regularly backup my mdev-based machine via rsync to an external drive > via USB. =C2=A0And yes my camera does show up as a USB mass storage devic= e. > Ditto for my HTC Desire. > "Those who don't understand UNI^H^H^Hsoftware are condemned to reinvent it, poorly." --=20 ~Nirbheek Chauhan Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team