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).
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. -- ============================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au ============================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org