Correction on the previous post. I decided to just connect the camera to my Gentoo machine in USB mode, and type in dmesg into a console to see what the device thought it was. It connected like any other thumb drive / dongle device, as well as allowing me to manipulate the data on the storage within the camera. To me, it was surprising...
This was not the case a year or so ago. It would only connect in PTP mode. The advances in the Linux kernel (and most likely udev) since have improved to a state where this is now a non-configurable issue, and it just "plugs and plays". And therefore the Open Source development model advances...
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