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.
