[BRLTTY] brltty spamming /var/log/syslog

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Samuel Thibault on 2016/11/24 at 00:32 +0100]

>A user has reported in Debian that he gets spam from brltty in
>/var/log/syslog:
>
>host brltty[204]: file system mount error: usbfs[brltty-usbfs] -> /var/run/brltty/usbfs: No such device
>
>I guess he just doesn't have the usbfs module. 

This was definitely not foreseen.

>Should brltty just try once and not try again if that kind of mount fails 
>(there is no hope it will work later).

One issue is that usbfs may actually not quite be available yet because, for 
example, brltty has been started before udev.

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