Re: New-bus unit wiring via hints..

From: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor_at_gsoft.com.au>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:20:57 +1030
On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, John Baldwin wrote:
> You could easily extend it to USB if you can come up with a
> reasonable way to specify the wiring.  You could possibly wire units
> via hints that specify serial numbers or manfacturer and model
> strings, etc. However, I'm less familiar with USB so I'm less unsure
> what specific attributes would be suitable for wiring or not.

Serial numbers can be OK.

Bus/port number would be good too - a lot of cheap stuff doesn't have a 
serial number (that is real) where as bus/port number would give you a 
way to differentiate (eg cheap serial adapters)

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