Re: [gentoo-user] Why is "mtp-probe" running when I plug in a USB device?

2022-01-21 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 4:23 PM Grant Edwards wrote: > > Why does that library think it should be probing every USB device I > plug in? Is that automatic probing required for libmtp and mtpfs to > work? I'm guessing that MTP cannot be detected by just looking at a device ID/etc and requires some

[gentoo-user] Why is "mtp-probe" running when I plug in a USB device?

2022-01-21 Thread Grant Edwards
I've noticed that whenever I plug in any sort of USB device, "mtp-probe" runs and logs the fact that the newly attached thing "was not an MTP device". This appears to be triggered by a rule in /lib/udev/rules.d/69-libmtp.rules which is owned by media-libs/libmtp Why does that library think