From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757585AbZCJRDe (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:03:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755081AbZCJRDW (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:03:22 -0400 Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:45098 "EHLO mail-out.m-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754510AbZCJRDW convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:03:22 -0400 From: Matthias Schwarzott To: linux-media@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 21/31] video: Auto-load videodev module when device opened. Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:03:16 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 Cc: Scott James Remnant , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mchehab@infradead.org References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200903101803.17211.zzam@gentoo.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Montag, 2. März 2009, Scott James Remnant wrote: Hi Scott! > The videodev module is missing the char-major-81-* alias that would > cause it to be auto-loaded when a device of that type is opened. This > patch adds the alias. The patch looks fine, but if videodev is not yet loaded, will loading videodev get any devices registered? For that to happen normally some pci video bridge adapter driver is needed, and that registers at videodev module. Without modprobe.conf tricks this still is not loaded then. Regards Matthias