On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 09:44 +0200, Nicolas Boulay wrote:
> The /dev/* file are created inside scripts. Those script create the
> specific files that link drivers and the dev files (using major/minor
> numbers).
> 
> So your problem should be solve by configuring udev,
> hotplug, /etc/modules or what ever starting script you use.
> 
> Nicolas Boulay
> 
> 2008/5/17 Levente Novák <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>         Is it possible to specify a module option to pwc in order to
>         load it
>         into a given slot instead of the slot being assigned
>         automatically?
>         Specifically, I would like to load it always as /dev/video1.
>         Beside the
>         webcam, I have a Hauppauge card which is normally
>         under /dev/video0 but
>         sometimes (after a reboot from a Win XP session) it gets
>         assigned /dev/video1 and pwc grabs /dev/video0. It is a major
>         pain then,
>         as my recording scripts expect the Hauppauge card
>         being /dev/video0. The
>         same problem happens to the motherboard sound card and pwc's
>         usb audio,
>         but ALSA has a module parameter index=n (where n is the slot
>         number)
>         which permits to always assign the second slot to the usb
>         audio. Is
>         there something similar for the v4l2 part of the pwc module?

Thanks, but in the meantime I discovered exactly what I was looking for:
the 'dev_hint' module option. In fact you don't need to configure
anything, just make under /etc/modprobe.d a file named e.g. 'pwc' which
contains 'option pwc dev_hint=1'  which makes pwc to load as /dev/video1
if this slot is still free.

Levente





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