Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri May 18 2001 - 03:27:42 EST


> > Consider an ID consisting of:
> > * vendor
> > * model
>
> Vendor and model ids are available for PCI and USB devices, but I think you
> can not assume that all busses have them and you dont gain anything if you
> keep them separate (unless you want to interpret the fields of the device id).
> In other words I would merge them into a single field.

Well you actually want vendor,model, subvendor, submodel to cover PCI, and
you can add ISAPnP and PnPBIOS to your list of suitable devices

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