On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 12:15:19PM -0400, James Carlson wrote: > It doesn't make sense to me to have two closely-related features like > this (both USB and PCI are just bus technologies for I/O devices) > implemented separately and in radically different ways.
I mostly agree, but do keep in mind that users are conscious of bus technologies -- they know that some device is a USB hub, or a USB this, that or the other, and parts of the USB topology are visible. So it may make sense to provide interfaces that deal with such buses separately from others simply because users perceive things that way (if they do). That said, there must be interfaces that are independent of bus technologies.
