In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sergey Babkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> I think this is a problem consisting of multiple parts:
>
> 1. Identify physical devices and be able to access them.
>
> 2. Identify some stable "logical" names by device type,
> that stay fixed when the configuration changes.
>
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Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: The major problem with it is that todays bus architectures don't have
: stable device addresses. Instead of devices having a fixed address on
: the bus that the user sets, the addresses are assigned as the devices
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, M. Warner Losh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> : The major problem with it is that todays bus architectures don't have
> : stable device addresses. Instead of devices having a fixed address o
On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 10:47:53PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote:
> Firewire would seem to be a lot like USB - hot pluggable and
> chainable, though I'm not sure if something like a firewire hub. What
> does it to do wire down device addresses?
FireWire devices have uuids, you can simply enumerate them
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
> On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 10:47:53PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > Firewire would seem to be a lot like USB - hot pluggable and
> > chainable, though I'm not sure if something like a firewire hub. What
> > does it to do wire down device addresses?
> F
On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 09:47:41AM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote:
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
> > On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 10:47:53PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > > Firewire would seem to be a lot like USB - hot pluggable and
> > > chainable, though I'm not sure if something like a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 09:47:41AM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote:
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 10:47:53PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote:
Firewire would seem to be a lot like USB - hot pluggable and
chainable, though I'm not sure if somet
>From: "M. Warner Losh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>usb assigns addresses dynamically. Everyone else does it basically
>statically. PCI slot/device numbers are static, but extreme
>configurations can change the bus number.
Some USB devices (though not all of them) provide a unique
device ID. If this I
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