On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:
> Alan Cox writes:
> > > So solving this is impossible and to not worry about it?
> >
> > Until we can find people who make mice and keyboards with serial
> > numbers that are unique.
>
> I would have to agree. If there's nothing to distinguish two devices,
> then no piece of software can give you a mapping that doesn't depend
> on insertion/detection order.
Heh, of course, there's the question of: can you *get* the
information. I have no clue if you can or not, but I'm curious, *can*
you get the serial number of a mouse? Does that work for any ps/2
mouse? Just curious. If you can't, well, it don't make no difference
if they're unique. :)
Stephen
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