Re: devfs - why not ?

[Johannes Erdfelt]

On Thu, Apr 13, 2000, Richard Gooch <[e-mail]> 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