well technically… USB initialization isn’t that simple, when you change which port it’s plugged into, it’s numerated under that new memory space, so from the computers perspective, it’s a different number, it’s a different device.
Usually you have a vendor and a device id to identify the connected device on the bus
You’re right though, that in every different port it will get its own memory allocated an so on (at least I also believe that), but that’s no reason to not identify the already known device
there are a couple IDs in the device manager, if you look closely you will see where it changes, and then search the registry for that string and you will find how crazy Windows can be with USB hardware. Actually stripping out those ID’s is a huge pain. I only know because of having to make legacy hardware work for work
it was worse with USB1 and old drivers wouldn’t unload so then when you unplugged them and plugged them back in, sometimes they wouldn’t work unless you rebooted. Windows is stupid
well technically… USB initialization isn’t that simple, when you change which port it’s plugged into, it’s numerated under that new memory space, so from the computers perspective, it’s a different number, it’s a different device.
Usually you have a vendor and a device id to identify the connected device on the bus
You’re right though, that in every different port it will get its own memory allocated an so on (at least I also believe that), but that’s no reason to not identify the already known device
there are a couple IDs in the device manager, if you look closely you will see where it changes, and then search the registry for that string and you will find how crazy Windows can be with USB hardware. Actually stripping out those ID’s is a huge pain. I only know because of having to make legacy hardware work for work
it was worse with USB1 and old drivers wouldn’t unload so then when you unplugged them and plugged them back in, sometimes they wouldn’t work unless you rebooted. Windows is stupid
Is that just obfuscated on other platforms (like MacOS)? I don’t think I’ve ever had a Mac get “confused” by a device by changing its port.
the other OS’s don’t store the configuration in the registry, that’s the main difference
I see.
So Windows just needs to git gud.
Git gut by using a sane POSIX architecture just like any other OS out there.