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Re: practical use of UID for USB devices
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Re: practical use of UID for USB devices


  • Subject: Re: practical use of UID for USB devices
  • From: Herbie Robinson <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 20:05:53 -0400

Tthe USB audio class actually does have the capacity for device manufacturers to provide this information through a serial number property. Unfortunately, we can't rely on that because we have seen devices that have the same value for this property for every instance of the device and we're back to topology to differentiate them.

You should make the real serial number available somehow so that the system and applications can correctly support devices that actually are implemented properly. It hardly seems fair to penalize properly implemented devices so that more than one incorrectly implemented device can be supported. Especially considering that properly implemented devices are more likely to be the high quality ones that are most likely to be used in multiple device combinations.


How about using the serial number as the unique id as long as there isn't more than one instance of the same serial number on the system and concatenating the topology location if there is more then one device from the same manufacturer.

That or if you see two devices with the same serial number, ignore the second one...
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