On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 10:05:52PM +0100, k...@aspodata.se wrote > Alec McKinnon: > > On 19/01/2016 18:51, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > ... > > > I have had no pain useing an old plain /dev. What's the pain ? > > take a machine running a desktop. Plug in a usb printer. Where's your node? > > To find that out I'd investigate /sys/bus/usb, either directly or via > usb-devices or some other program. I guess "some other program" is > probably udev or similar for you, it might not be for me. > > If it is a usb disk, I just look at the output of sg_map -x -i, and then > decide what to do. > > > That's the whole point of a dynamic dev manager, it responds to devices > > changes that occur on normal modern machines and does TheRightThing(tm) > > - currently defined as whatever the dev-manager config tells it to do. > > Ok, I don't have any usb printer, all my printers are network connected > and do handle postscript and lpd. > > And my "dev-manager" tells the system to do nothing till the owner of > the system tells it to do so, which is the right thing for me. > The right thing might be something else for you.
I'm the ****-disturber who started the following wiki entries. There have since been many contributions by other users... https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev/Automount_USB https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev/Automount_USB/automount A minimal system running busybox probably also has mdev built in. It's "dynamic" and can automount if desired. But if you tell it not to automount, it won't. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
