Re: [linux-usb] Re: USB device allocation

Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Fri, 8 Oct 1999 16:28:49 -0700 (PDT)

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On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Johannes Erdfelt wrote:
> I have 2 modems, I plug modem A in first, it becomes (hypothetical)
> device /dev/modem1. I plug in modem B second, it becomes /dev/modem2.
> Now, I unplug both and plug modem B in first, it becomes modem1 now with
> the current naming system.
> This is completely unacceptable.

Yup. This is a *hard* problem. We should look at other OSes approach to
the problem, perhaps there are some ideas there...

-Dan

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