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From: Bernd Krumboeck <krumboeck@universalnet.at>
Subject: Re: USB CAN Scripts - was Re: usb_8dev: USB Protocoll available?
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 09:06:10 +0100
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Hello Oliver!

Am 2012-12-16 17:54, schrieb Oliver Hartkopp:
>
> ... there's a serial number "ED000202" available.
>
> Maybe we should discuss about having that kind of unique identifier available
> in the sysfs (as we do not have a MAC address like USB ethernet adapters) for
> udev scripts as discussed above.

Simply a great idea. :-)

Some questions:
* How should it look like? ("<vendorId><productId><serial><...>")
* What should we do if the device does not have any useful number? (A PCI device can simply use the slot-id. USB???)
* How a driver should set the address? (priv->can.addr?)


regards,
Bernd