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11:48 am, 30 Dec 03

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robert_love recently wrote that book on the Linux kernel and now works for Ximian/Novell, where he is charged with doing the kernel work needed to make the desktop work. Recent posts include a screenshot of GNOME interacting with hotplug+DBUS.

Now that I look at that picture: I got a digital camera for christmas. The possibility that it wouldn't work from Linux didn't even occur to me, but thankfully gphoto worked without any trouble at all. I did have to discover the Linux 2.6 secret mounts:
mount -t usbfs none /proc/bus/usb mount -t sysfs none /sys
I haven't tried the hotplug stuff yet, but I don't think it's useful until the userspace stuff is finished.

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hotplug is sorta a PITA at times. I got mine all setup so that use-storage devices get mounted for me. It's a very low level capability, and there needs to be some better userspace tools. The kernel side needs some work too. It's surprisingly hard to actually figure out *what* scsi device a newly inserted usb-storage device took.
Now, if only each USB device had a unique id (think IEEE/MAC addresses), then I could have different devices (i.e. keychain) mounted in sensable locations instead of just /mnt/usb/usb-storage-X ...

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