Wrong kind of port?

Posted Dec 4, 2014 21:11 UTC (Thu) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239)
In reply to: Wrong kind of port? by dlang
Parent article: Distribution quotes of the week

I'm sure I've corrected you on this before. USB provides stable topology. But if you swap two arbitrary shitty USB devices, the kernel has no way of knowing that they've been swapped - you can only bind policy to the port, not to the device.