Rodney Baker wrote:
On Mon, 20 May 2013 14:07:07 Linda Walsh wrote: [...]
Have you ever use Windows and changed the bus slot on a piece of hardware? It thinks it's entirely new and, by default tries to go out and search for a NEW driver -- even though you just unplugged your mouse from one USB slot and plugged it into an adjacent slot. That's considered reliable or useful?
No, I've never had that happen to me - not on XP, Windows Server (2000-2008) or Windows 7 (never used Vista and avoid 8 like the plague).
It happens on all of them -- but you may not notice it if you have driver prefs set to never check for new or updated drivers when you install new SW, then it will quickly install the old driver -- but it will be considered a 'new' device -- places where this makes a difference -- network connections (it will increment them -- doesn't reuse old names by default). USB devices -- it can change drive letters on an external device... I.e. it saw a device in slot "1" and reserved "E" for it, if it sees you put something in slot "2", it assigns a new name leaving "F" for something plugged into "1". You can usually reassign names in Win7 and above fairly easily...
One of goals for suggested naming scheme is to eliminate this problem in the future making it independent of scan order.
The new interface scheme makes it dependent on the position of the device on the particular bus -- so like I have seen above, those names change simply by moving a USB cable from one slot to the next.
That doesn't create a stable naming scheme.
That is stupidity. I cannot think of a single use-case where having the name of a device change when it is unplugged and re-plugged would be useful.
--- You plug a device into a card reader and it's seen as drive A. You plug it into the same card reader in a different slot OR you plug the card reader into a different internal slot, and you would get a different drive letter.. I would be stretching to come up with a use case, but probably could if I tried hard enough -- but it's not usually the more common case. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org