Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-05-17T17:32:04Z

On Thu, 17 May 2001, James Simmons wrote:
> > No, there is another addressing scheme that can be for devices without serial
> > number: the vendor and product ids. Most people do not have two devices of
> > the same kind, so you often do not need the topology at all.
>
> I wouldn't make that assumpation. I have two PS/2 keybaords attached to my
> system and they don't have serial ids nor do they have vendor or product
> ids.

Yes. And it's the hardcore users who have multiple devices of the same kind.
Think e.g. RAID.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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