From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 992FA1381F3 for ; Mon, 24 Dec 2012 04:56:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1861E21C091; Mon, 24 Dec 2012 04:56:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pb0-f52.google.com (mail-pb0-f52.google.com [209.85.160.52]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 405F221C087 for ; Mon, 24 Dec 2012 04:54:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pb0-f52.google.com with SMTP id ro2so3785178pbb.39 for ; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 20:54:48 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :x-gm-message-state; bh=cXqdPDZFcykSZYFJxAXEtxySEs3UrwJJ2syRRR4x8Sg=; b=OHjkAvgvzVge7g3FWfS9Z9XipDThjiGEzY0843RqiWaamOm6r0E7y1h437/RSY1Tb3 cgnAKpet3GmgnKufIk+xapOjY8jMrrFxhaSZ++DihXiTTnTA9mm2By+fSZuctbQplSXp 2ITmL7SZRPzMiqlQG7yqP8iET3Eaqrz8IWJ9XXUlJQg//8YAMKgoSFygjK2sSA5e/sLa l4pIfCEm5SawgwuFroUBO78jbNFM9rvgSc15VpaqT94tBTO6b90HrRbu8KEHHpA7PuYI GoC2QxK/GSUUucxv++rRgMWgvu7tskBW1P3ISyoqUagmpvIdZIDEOd7EPUT1KHZNrHnY GXkw== X-Received: by 10.68.125.195 with SMTP id ms3mr63169402pbb.149.1356324887993; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 20:54:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.0.4] ([123.201.39.83]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id vn2sm11621845pbc.31.2012.12.23.20.54.46 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 23 Dec 2012 20:54:47 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <50D7E014.2040603@nileshgr.com> Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 10:24:44 +0530 From: Nilesh Govindrajan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: android and mtp References: <20121221195656.217987ce@acme7.acmenet> <20121221232036.6df0fd1f@digimed.co.uk> <20121222100137.2a21405c@acme7.acmenet> <20121222141512.2c2dbfef@khamul.example.com> <20121222104942.5d73d1ad@acme7.acmenet> <20121222171337.101b2370@khamul.example.com> <20121223101737.35875712@acme7.acmenet> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmj0L6AIfMECY01t+s9mgFDC71kk4vT0snwvYdvlr5pw+ycTyBZDfLYT9dq3EFGj8NgB1H8 X-Archives-Salt: 584f0117-bc2d-4ee5-b9c2-5f33fd4a917b X-Archives-Hash: 76f3fd62cc70fc99814be38030b04b0a On Monday 24 December 2012 09:24:16 AM IST, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2012-12-23, luis jure 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