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 -- geert@linux-m68k.orgIn 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
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