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Alan Stern wrote:
> This was done deliberately.  The relevant standards state that a USB
> device can have no more than one peripheral interface.

Does building a kernel image that can run on different hardware without 
rebuilding also violate the "relevant standards"?

And who's to say that there aren't multiple USB devices on a single 
board, that just happen to share a CPU and memory? :-)

-Scott