From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Miles Lane Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 02:11:07 +0000 Subject: Re: Adding PCMCIA support to the kernel tree -- developers needed. Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: [...] > - I'm only talking about netdevices. What happens with other > types of device if the discovery order is randomised? I > dunno. It appears that we currently only have representation of USB, PCI, PCMCIA and Network driver/bus developers in this discussion. Is that as it should be? It seems to me that the topic of device detection and configuration is quite important to get right for all hotpluggable busses. Should we be extending invitations to others? It's clear that there are major usability problems that arise from the lack of a MAC address equivalent for all hardware devices. As David Brownell mentioned, the typical usage pattern (at least for USB) seems to be that just a few devices are connected and usually not more than one device of a given type. The confusion sets in when there are multiple USB mice, keyboards, videocams, etc. If XFree86 ever gets support for multi-headed consoles with support for dedicated mice and keyboards per console, getting the mapping from physical device to logical device (for example, /dev/input/mouse[1-4]) to stay consistent would be really helpful. I believe that this feature is actively being developed for XFree86, BTW. Probably the most that can be hoped for is that we develop a method of locking down the mapping between logical device interfaces for those devices that have unique identifiers. Miles _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel