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Date:      Mon, 10 Apr 2006 16:04:46 +0200
From:      joerg@britannica.bec.de
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: What's in a (device) name?
Message-ID:  <20060410140446.GB14117@britannica.bec.de>
In-Reply-To: <17466.25085.446099.450392@bhuda.mired.org>
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On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 09:47:41AM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote:
> In <20060410074740.GD1006@britannica.bec.de>, joerg@britannica.bec.de 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 devices have uuids, you can simply enumerate them using those
> > :-)
> 
> Where do those come from? Assigned by the user? Dynamically by the
> controller? By the manufacturer?

IIRC by the manufacturer, like MAC addresses.

Joerg



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