From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261331AbVAWREk (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Jan 2005 12:04:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261332AbVAWREk (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Jan 2005 12:04:40 -0500 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.200]:6871 "EHLO rproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261331AbVAWREj (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Jan 2005 12:04:39 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=kwSXxOYQ1uJ5pwxLyFPMQYLvh2xgAxMtdZweVf350iWP3L/cRme43FPKKW+A4Uho+NbV2cKba0a5Dn6QhySja++EztWJ+2zCchaNCeKb+ZOSlhRXIaLv6DPLrW7bqD8lgeuZMCOUGhizslYf+52spEHQlMi8VmPEOlPsHbhjmOQ= Message-ID: <9e4733910501230904468439c3@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 12:04:38 -0500 From: Jon Smirl Reply-To: Jon Smirl To: lkml Subject: udev and raw1394/video1394 drivers Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The raw1394 and video1394 device drivers aren't creating their sysfs dev nodes. Since these are missing udev can't create /dev/raw1394 and /dev/video1394/*. This complicates getting camcorders running on udev distributions like Fedora Core 3. I searched the archives and one partial patch for this was proposed but it doesn't look like it got accepted. Is this being worked on? Easy work around: MAKEDEV raw1394 video1394, but try telling that to a newbie. Google search shows many people having this problem. There is a Redhat bug for this too. -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com