Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:20:57 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Robert Backhaus <robbak@robbak.com>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New-bus unit wiring via hints.. Message-ID: <200710301420.59163.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200710282350.48031.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <200710111741.34992.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <d4499580710281608s74e0283fkb5c30c560dbb7d4e@mail.gmail.com> <200710282350.48031.jhb@freebsd.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, John Baldwin wrote: > You could easily extend it to USB if you can come up with a > reasonable way to specify the wiring. You could possibly wire units > via hints that specify serial numbers or manfacturer and model > strings, etc. However, I'm less familiar with USB so I'm less unsure > what specific attributes would be suitable for wiring or not. Serial numbers can be OK. Bus/port number would be good too - a lot of cheap stuff doesn't have a serial number (that is real) where as bus/port number would give you a way to differentiate (eg cheap serial adapters) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBHJqoj5ZPcIHs/zowRAocWAKCG/7eF6vZvXKBWSeGdPuslDg/JgACfSeut WmbgROIrcwRj+F7SzNtSxcs= =eHoM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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