Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Nov 1999 11:04:49 +0100 | From | Magnus Damm <> | Subject | Re: Hot PCI bus plugging |
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> You've never actually tried this, have you?
Nah, I've only configured a laptop and assumed that all modules were probed at insertion time... But that is great news!
> > problem 2: any pc with multiple network cards: configuration > > The PCMCIA package also (imo) nicely deals with this problem. You can > configure network devices based on which slot they're in, or by MAC > address. Likewise, you can configure SCSI devices based on their SCSI > ID's, instead of sda/sdb/etc assignments. This can all be done in > userspace.
Wouldn't it be nice if all devices were treated in a similar way?
I have not read any USB spec, but I guess they have vendor/device id:s too...
/ Magnus Damm
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