On Wed, May 10, 2000, Jurgen Botz <jurgen@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Richard Gooch wrote:
> > However, it probably makes sense to put *all* USB devices under
> > /dev/usb, just like the SCSI and IDE trees.
>
> The problem with this is that some USB devices are layers underneath
> more general devices... for example the v4l stuff. Ergo I have the
> same problem as JE's floppies with my two video inputs: one is a PCI
> board (BT848) and the other a USB cam. Which one becomes video0 and
> which video1 depends on the order in which the drivers are loaded...
> since the drivers are loaded on demand this doesn't work well.
>
> Ok, in my specific case I can solve this by just always forcing the
> bttv driver to load at boot time so that it will always be
> /dev/v4l/video0, but that's ugly. Also it wouldn't work if I had,
> say, another video device which was a PCMCIA card.
Device naming is a separate problem altogether.
I've tried touching on it in the past but I seem to be confusing people
even more.
JE
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