On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 12:08:55 -0400 (EDT) > Alan Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Clearly we should support both schemes. [...] > > This is not obvious to me. Please share your line of reasoning with me. > Why is it not possible to cut over to the different scheme at certain > release?
Simply because there may be devices that work with the old scheme but not with the new one. I wouldn't want to give up support for those devices in order to add support for some others. If you or anyone else can demonstrate that _every_ device that accepts the old scheme also accepts the new one, then I will have no objection to dropping the old scheme entirely. In theory, every device _should_ work perfectly with both schemes. I think it was Yogi Berra who said "In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is." Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
