Re: What's in a (device) name?

2006-04-10 Thread joerg
On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 10:47:53PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: Firewire would seem to be a lot like USB - hot pluggable and chainable, though I'm not sure if something like a firewire hub. What does it to do wire down device addresses? FireWire devices have uuids, you can simply enumerate them

Re: What's in a (device) name?

2006-04-10 Thread Mike Meyer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 10:47:53PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: Firewire would seem to be a lot like USB - hot pluggable and chainable, though I'm not sure if something like a firewire hub. What does it to do wire down device addresses? FireWire

Re: What's in a (device) name?

2006-04-10 Thread joerg
On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 09:47:41AM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 10:47:53PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: Firewire would seem to be a lot like USB - hot pluggable and chainable, though I'm not sure if something like a firewire

Re: Re: What's in a (device) name?

2006-04-10 Thread Sergey Babkin
From: M. Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] usb assigns addresses dynamically. Everyone else does it basically statically. PCI slot/device numbers are static, but extreme configurations can change the bus number. Some USB devices (though not all of them) provide a unique device ID. If this ID is

Re: What's in a (device) name?

2006-04-10 Thread Darren Pilgrim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 09:47:41AM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 10:47:53PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: Firewire would seem to be a lot like USB - hot pluggable and chainable, though I'm not sure if

Re: What's in a (device) name?

2006-04-09 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : The major problem with it is that todays bus architectures don't have : stable device addresses. Instead of devices having a fixed address on : the bus that the user sets, the addresses are assigned as the devices :

Re: What's in a (device) name?

2006-04-09 Thread Mike Meyer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], M. Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : The major problem with it is that todays bus architectures don't have : stable device addresses. Instead of devices having a fixed address on : the