What's in a (device) name?

[Mike Meyer]

In <20060410074740.GD1006 at britannica.bec.de>, joerg at britannica.bec.de typed:
> On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 10:47:53PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > Firewire would seem to be a lot like USB - hot pluggable and
> > chainable, though I'm not sure if something like a firewire hub. What
> > does it to do wire down device addresses?
> FireWire devices have uuids, you can simply enumerate them using those
> :-)

Where do those come from? Assigned by the user? Dynamically by the
controller? By the manufacturer?

	Thanks,
	<mike
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