Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 16 Aug 1998 21:43:07 +0200 | | Subject | Re: DEVFSv50 and /dev/fb? (or /dev/fb/? ???) | | From | Inaky Perez Gonzalez <> |
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>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Jagdis <mike@roan.co.uk> writes:
Mike> It seems pretty obvious that USB devices must have some way of Mike> uniquely identifying a particular unit otherwise you couldn't Mike> differentiate between, say, two USB hard disks on the same bus.
USB makes provisions for this in form of an standard serial number [combined with unique per-vendor ID and per-vendor device ID], but [the bad news] is that it is not mandatory [sillicon prices rise]. At least for mass storage media [disks] it is; it's a point.
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