From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 20:26:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 20:26:02 -0400 Received: from router-100M.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.17]:16398 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 20:25:56 -0400 Subject: Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants To: hpa@transmeta.com (H. Peter Anvin) Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 01:21:41 +0100 (BST) Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), geert@linux-m68k.org (Geert Uytterhoeven), torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds), jlundell@pobox.com (Jonathan Lundell), jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com (Jeff Garzik), jsimmons@transvirtual.com (James Simmons), neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au (Neil Brown), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Linux Kernel Mailing List), viro@math.psu.edu In-Reply-To: <3B030DDE.B4E7B0CC@transmeta.com> from "H. Peter Anvin" at May 16, 2001 04:31:42 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > USB disks are required (haha etc) to have serial numbers. Firewire similarly > > has unique disk identifiers. > > How about for other device classes? Keyboards and mice dont which is a real pig because it prevents you using dual head, two usb keyboards and 2 usb mice for a dual user box (assuming someone fixed the console code mess to cope with multiple console users as a concept)