On Thu, Apr 13, 2000, Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca> wrote:
> Alan Cox writes:
> > > So solving this is impossible and to not worry about it?
> >
> > Until we can find people who make mice and keyboards with serial
> > numbers that are unique.
>
> I would have to agree. If there's nothing to distinguish two devices,
> then no piece of software can give you a mapping that doesn't depend
> on insertion/detection order.
Like I've said before, there's always bus topology.
It's better than insertion order, but still sub-optimal.
JE
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