Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 05 Oct 1999 18:18:35 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: USB device allocation |
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Johannes Erdfelt wrote: > For all of the "standard devices" (this is vaguley defined) it uses one > of the standard device nodes. In the case of USB zip drives, etc it > shows up as the next sd* device.
Definitely vague. A pet peeve: Mice are allocated all over the place: serial mice, bus mice, USB mice. Having a standard device node and API for mice would be handy, ie. open /dev/mouse0 and always get the mouse. (though, doing so would entail having a parport-like driver subsystem for serial)
> I guess it's time to grab devfs and seriously look at what can be done > to do this.
It still surprises me that devfs has not made it into the kernel, as an OPTIONAL module which is DISABLED by default.
Jeff
Caveat: I haven't looked at the latest 'input patch', maybe it already does this.
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