Re: [PATCH RFC v2 0/7] V4L2 SDR API

[Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi>]

On 14.12.2013 19:05, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> On 12/14/2013 05:45 PM, Antti Palosaari wrote:
>> Hello
>> One possible problem I noticed is device node name.
>>
>> Documentation/devices.txt
>>
>>    65 block	SCSI disk devices (16-31)
>> 		  0 = /dev/sdq		17th SCSI disk whole disk
>> 		 16 = /dev/sdr		18th SCSI disk whole disk
>> 		 32 = /dev/sds		19th SCSI disk whole disk
>> 		    ...
>> 		240 = /dev/sdaf		32nd SCSI disk whole disk
>>
>> 		Partitions are handled in the same way as for IDE
>> 		disks (see major number 3) except that the limit on
>> 		partitions is 15.
>>
>>
>>    81 char	video4linux
>> 		  0 = /dev/video0	Video capture/overlay device
>> 		    ...
>> 		 63 = /dev/video63	Video capture/overlay device
>> 		 64 = /dev/radio0	Radio device
>> 		    ...
>> 		127 = /dev/radio63	Radio device
>> 		224 = /dev/vbi0		Vertical blank interrupt
>> 		    ...
>> 		255 = /dev/vbi31	Vertical blank interrupt
>>
>>
>> What I understand, /dev/sdr is not suitable node name as it conflicts
>> with existing node name.
>
> Good catch, that won't work :-)
>
>> Any ideas?
>
> /dev/sdradio?

/dev/swradio?


Lets do a small poll here. Everyone, but me, has a one vote ;)

regards
Antti
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