site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com Thread-index: AcaYifOC910tYxxxTMeHJQBkeXc46QArcKQw I believe it is up to the vendors to ensure product ids are unique. I do now know who ensures vendor ids are unique. Perhaps the USB-IF, www.usb.org.

Message: 1 Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 12:17:24 -0700 From: "Brian Bechtel" <brian.bechtel@gmail.com> Subject: Re: USB driver vendor id/product id list? To: " Andr?-John Mas " <ajmas@sympatico.ca> Cc: "darwin-dev@lists.apple.com" <Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com> Message-ID: <f6b4217c0606241217r7cce0532k95b3be190339fa0e@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

On 6/24/06, Andri-John Mas <ajmas@sympatico.ca> wrote:

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Would it be feasible a) for Apple to compile a list

No, I can't see how or why Apple would do that. Too much effort for too little return. Apple wants their developers to make money.

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or at least provide one where people could add entries

That's <http://www.pcidatabase.com>

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and b) for a tool to be provide to MacOS X to actually look up this information.

That's "ioreg -l" in a terminal window. System Profiler also provides this information.

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