Kudzu and automatic detection

[Hans de Goede]

Matthew E. Lauterbach wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
> 

Well,

AFAIK this one is easy, just keep a timestamp when the device was last 
seen and nuke it if it hasn't been used for a year.

Regards,

Hans