From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 30 04:07:24 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC92E16A418; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:07:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01D1713C4A5; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:07:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (inchoate.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.30]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l9U3p2jj018166 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:21:02 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:20:57 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200710111741.34992.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <200710282350.48031.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200710282350.48031.jhb@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1272948.B2tjWIDkzc"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200710301420.59163.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -3.977 () ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.58 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Robert Backhaus , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New-bus unit wiring via hints.. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:07:24 -0000 --nextPart1272948.B2tjWIDkzc Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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=20 serial number (that is real) where as bus/port number would give you a=20 way to differentiate (eg cheap serial adapters) =2D-=20 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 --nextPart1272948.B2tjWIDkzc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBHJqoj5ZPcIHs/zowRAocWAKCG/7eF6vZvXKBWSeGdPuslDg/JgACfSeut WmbgROIrcwRj+F7SzNtSxcs= =eHoM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1272948.B2tjWIDkzc--