From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: help naming video devices
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:07:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090715140720.GA24045@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.00.0907141236380.31747@rray.drdc.mstc.ms.gov>
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 09:03:41AM -0500, Richard Ray wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Bryan Kadzban wrote:
>
> > Richard Ray wrote:
> >> What do I need to do to get consistant device naming?
> >
> > Use the existing symlinks in /dev/v4l/by-path perhaps?
> >
> > Or, if v4l_id supports it from your capture card, udev will create
> > /dev/v4l/by-id links as well, which may work better for you (they're
> > based on serial # and bus).
> >
> > These are both supposed to be stable and unique. Of course, you need to
> > be using at least a recent version of udev (i.e. one from *long* after
> > it changed to stop using SYSFS{} anymore)...
> >
> >
> I am using CentOS 5.3, kernel 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.centos.plus, and
> udev-095-14.20.el5_3 package
>
> There is no /dev/v4l directory so what are my options for fixing this?
Upgrading to a new version of udev, and a kernel released in the past 3
years :)
seriously, take this up with centos if you want to support this, it's
not something that is going to work with your existing system due to the
oldness of the packages.
good luck,
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-15 14:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-14 17:45 help naming video devices Richard Ray
2009-07-15 4:31 ` Bryan Kadzban
2009-07-15 14:03 ` Richard Ray
2009-07-15 14:07 ` Greg KH [this message]
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