On Thu, 17 May 2001, James Simmons wrote: > > No, there is another addressing scheme that can be for devices without serial > > number: the vendor and product ids. Most people do not have two devices of > > the same kind, so you often do not need the topology at all. > > I wouldn't make that assumpation. I have two PS/2 keybaords attached to my > system and they don't have serial ids nor do they have vendor or product > ids. Yes. And it's the hardcore users who have multiple devices of the same kind. Think e.g. RAID. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Geert Uytterhoeven
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Alan Cox
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants H. Peter Anvin
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Linus Torvalds
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Alan Cox
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Geert Uytterhoeven
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants James Simmons
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Thomas Sailer
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Tim Jansen
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants James Simmons
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Geert Uytterhoeven
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Tim Jansen
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Oliver Neukum
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Linus Torvalds
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Joel Becker
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Michael Meissner
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Andreas Dilger
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Kai Henningsen
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Jonathan Lundell
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Kai Henningsen
- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Jonathan Lundell