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    SubjectRe: linux as a minicomputer ?
    On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 05:49:42PM +0000, John P. Looney wrote:
    > On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 07:13:39PM +0200, Vojtech Pavlik mentioned:
    > > > I'd presumed this was
    > > > the whole point of the busid spec in the config file.
    > > No, it's for running one Xserver on multiple displays at once only.
    > > Sad, ain't it?
    >
    > Very sad. Nice to know it's not really the kernel's fault.
    >
    > Is it possible to say "Any mice plugged in to this port is
    > /dev/input/mouse3" etc. so that if someone plugged out your mouse, plugged
    > in another into a different port, and you plugged yours back in, that they
    > wouldn't renumberate ?

    No, that is not possible. However, on plugging the mouse, /sbin/hotplug
    will be called with appropriate arguments to allow to take any action
    needed (symlinking, sending a signal, whatever) to make the mouse keep
    working. Also a list of existing devices is available under
    /proc/bus/input/devices for applications to look at and reconfigure in
    case of a hotplug event.

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    Vojtech Pavlik
    SuSE Labs
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