[ros-dev] Setupapi improvements

[KJK::Hyperion]

At 06.13 19/10/2004, you wrote:
>>Which setupapi functions are needed for this hack?
>Right now its a hardcoded hack to SetupDiGetClassDevsA that looks for the 
>iPods Vendor ID by talking to the /proc filesystem.

I've heard about the PnP support in the newest Linux versions. Their HAL 
sounds a lot like our PnP Service. Maybe the Wine people should rather have 
a look at that - I doubt direct access can be made portable enough (save 
for some special cases - e.g. SCSI)

>I was hoping we could make it generic enough that ReactOS and Wine could 
>both use the same code for device identification at least on the userspace 
>side because if I understand it correctly all USB devices under any OS use 
>the same ID system. I dont know how the other hardware such as PCI and 
>friends work.

it depends (but in general it's some variation of the vendor id/device id 
scheme). In fact, Windows has several enumerators, one per bus, each 
supporting a different kind of device enumeration and identifications (FYI, 
PCI devices have a vendor id, a device id, a subsystem vendor id, a 
subsystem device id and a revision id), plus a root enumerator that 
implements a default behavior (the identifier is a GUID) that should be 
good enough for everything else (if not, you write your own enumerator). 
You generally don't use these identifiers directly, anyway