Kudzu and automatic detection

[Matthew E. Lauterbach]

On Monday, December 06, 2004 4:26 PM -0600, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le lundi 06 décembre 2004 à 15:59 -0600, Matthew E. Lauterbach a écrit :
> > On Monday, December 06, 2004 11:42 AM, Simarjeet Sahni wrote:
> > >I agree, the device should be unavailabe if it has been removed,
> > >however, its related user configured properties should not.
> >
> > What if it is actually gone, never to return?
> > How can we tell the difference?
> 
> Is this really a problem given today's storage sizes ? This message will
> be heavier than most device property files. We are talking about a very
> small set of critical tunings
> 
It's a very small problem.  I think that if you can determine that it isn't
coming back you should clean up after it.  I agree that if the device will
return or if you can't tell the difference it would be better to keep the
user configuration.