Re: CE 5.0 composite USB devices

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From: Raymond Rogers (Raymond.Rogers_at_gmail.com)
Date: 12/03/04


Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 17:26:34 -0600
To: "Steve Schrock [MS]" <sschrock@online.microsoft.com>

I would have assumed that it was just a hub also. But when I look at
the hardware manager in XP it shows up as a composite device.

Steve Schrock [MS] wrote:

>Are you sure that switch merges the USB keyboard and mouse descriptors to
>simulate a composite device? It would be much easier for the switch to act
>as a hub so that each device is still viewed independently by the host.
>Turning on all debug zones for usbd.dll should make it clear.
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