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Cc: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>, freebsd-usb@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: USB serial device naming
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On Monday 14 December 2009 18:44:01 Trevor Blackwell wrote:
> > USB_IOCTL_GET_PARENT_NAME
>
> That seems like the right approach. Is there only ever one associated
> "parent" driver? Are there cases where it should report both a serial
> & network interface?

That's a good question how to best standardise this. Probably the IOCTL is 
useful for other busses too.

--HPS