On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 12:03:28PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> This was essentially repeated as a TODO in last week's
> announcement of the [Compaq] PJB-100 device: <quote>
> 
> * USB device discovery.  There's no easy way on Linux to
>   enumerate USB devices and decide what /dev files they
>   correspond to.  We think this is a bigger issue than
>   the PJB, of course. </quote>

And this is not only true for USB, but for every device out there. It
could be handled by devfsd (or a similar daemon), but it'd need a lot of
changes all over the kernel.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs

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