Re: linux as a minicomputer ?

[Vojtech Pavlik]

On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 05:49:42PM +0000, John P. Looney wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 07:13:39PM +0200, Vojtech Pavlik mentioned:
> > > I'd presumed this was
> > > the whole point of the busid spec in the config file.
> > No, it's for running one Xserver on multiple displays at once only.
> > Sad, ain't it?
> 
>  Very sad. Nice to know it's not really the kernel's fault. 
> 
>  Is it possible to say "Any mice plugged in to this port is
> /dev/input/mouse3" etc. so that if someone plugged out your mouse, plugged
> in another into a different port, and you plugged yours back in, that they
> wouldn't renumberate ?

No, that is not possible. However, on plugging the mouse, /sbin/hotplug
will be called with appropriate arguments to allow to take any action
needed (symlinking, sending a signal, whatever) to make the mouse keep
working. Also a list of existing devices is available under
/proc/bus/input/devices for applications to look at and reconfigure in
case of a hotplug event.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs