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From: Nilesh Govindrajan <me@nileshgr.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: android and mtp
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 10:24:44 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50D7E014.2040603@nileshgr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <kb8jl8$3ov$1@ger.gmane.org>

On Monday 24 December 2012 09:24:16 AM IST, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2012-12-23, luis jure <ljc@internet.com.uy> wrote:
>> on 2012-12-22 at 17:13 Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>
>>> Now, imagine you are the guy at Samsung deciding what features the S2
>>> will support. Which option you gonna pick?
>>
>> yeah, you're right, i guess. but for once i'd like the guys at the
>> corporations to think like me, and not to be forced to think like
>> them...
>
> I'm glad they chose MTP: I want my phone to continue to work while I'm
> transferring files.  In order to mount the filesystem via USB, the
> phone would have to unmount it (which means it's nothing but a flash
> drive).  In order to mount the filesystem via USB, it also means
> they'd be forced to use VFAT for the Linux root filesystem, and that
> sucks bad.
>

They still use VFAT for the so called sdcard (my Xperia S has internal 
storage, not extensible).

--
Nilesh Govindarajan
http://nileshgr.com


  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-24  4:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-21 21:56 [gentoo-user] android and mtp luis jure
2012-12-21 22:19 ` Paul Hartman
2012-12-21 23:20   ` Neil Bothwick
2012-12-22 12:01     ` luis jure
2012-12-22 12:15       ` Alan McKinnon
2012-12-22 12:49         ` luis jure
2012-12-22 15:13           ` Alan McKinnon
2012-12-23 12:17             ` luis jure
2012-12-24  3:54               ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2012-12-24  4:54                 ` Nilesh Govindrajan [this message]
2012-12-24 18:17                   ` Grant Edwards
2012-12-24 18:31                     ` Michael Mol
2012-12-22 22:57           ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2012-12-23 12:21             ` luis jure
2012-12-22 23:32     ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2012-12-23  3:40       ` Nilesh Govindrajan
2012-12-23  3:55       ` Daniel Frey
2012-12-23 23:22         ` luis jure
2012-12-25  5:26           ` Daniel Frey
2012-12-21 22:26 ` [gentoo-user] " Mark Knecht
2012-12-22 11:09   ` luis jure
2012-12-22 17:51     ` Mark Knecht

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