Hi Alan, it seems you did not follow the mails preceding the one you replied to. This is all about libusbx providing certain information.
> > Right now, I can reliably tell which devices share a common bus. > > However, currently it's only Windows that returns the correct > > VID/PID for the root hub. > That's a very strange statement. Root hubs don't have built-in VIDs or > PIDs, so how can you say that Windows returns the correct values? > > Or to put it another way, since no single VID/PID combination is really > correct for a root hub, the values returned by other operating systems > are just as valid as the values returned by Windows. As said above, my statement relates to libusbx. I'm aware that a root hub is a different animal from a regular USB device. > > So it looks as if there is no possible > > way to tell which host controller model runs a given bus except > > for Windows. > > Not true at all. It's certainly possible to find out that information > in Linux. Of course it is. But not with libusbx currently. All the best, /Markus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ libusbx-devel mailing list libusbx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libusbx-devel
