Aliases¶
Aliases allow providing meaningful human names to USB devices and the PCI buses and devices connecting them despite the challenges of the USB implementation:
{% include "app/usb/device_aliases.html" %}
Physical devices consist of multiple USB components.
USB components present different logical USB devices to the host computer depending on what physical devices they are plugged into, and the cables connecting the devices.
Most USB devices do not have unique identifiers such as true serial numbers.
The sys/device file structure is not persistent or consistent against system reboot timing and plug-and-play.
Typically, you will define aliases interactively, by clicking on the buttons in the device tree. But you might find this page useful for seeing all of the aliases that you have defined, and editing specific aliases.