On Tuesday 23 August 2005 16:51, Paul Rolland wrote: > Hello Sergey, > > > Yes. Addresses for USB devices are assigned dynamically. If you > > disconnect the modem from USB and connect it again, its address will > > change. > > The problem I've is that nothing changed on the machine except that > I did a reboot. Nothing (USB device) added, nothing removed, so with > a stable hardware config, USB numbering should have stayed stable, IMHO.
Basically, no it shouldn't. > > > > I would have been expecting some more stability in the > > > > numbering across > > > > > reboot, the same way IDE disks numbers are stable. > > > > Use some other identifier which is stable - e.g., serial number of the > > USB device (unfortunately, many devices don't have it). > > Well yes, I'm going to try to convert to some other identifiers space > as this seems to be the only way to go. > > Thanks for the confirmation, > Regards, > Paul /proc/bus/usb/devices (which tells you where a device is located in the tree). This should work on 2.4 kernels, 2.6 kernels should be using sysfs by now. -- Cheers, Alistair. 'No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway.' Third year Computer Science undergraduate. 1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
