On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 21:50 +1200, Michael Cree wrote: > On 29/04/2009, at 6:19 PM, Hans Verkuil wrote: > > On Wednesday 29 April 2009 04:56:53 Andy Walls wrote: > >> The ivtv and cx25840 module should be deferring the cx2584x firmware > >> load until the chip is actually needed. Then the actual loading is > >> spun > >> off to some transient kernel thread to get the job done in parallel > >> with > >> other processes. > > > > What does surprise me here is that the fw is loaded right after the > > driver > > was loaded, which does suggest that some process is opening one of the > > device nodes since the fw load is only done on the first open. > > Loading lirc drivers maybe?
It has to be something from userspace on the /dev/video* or /dev/radio* nodes. I'm not sure lirc would cause this. On my systems (Fedora 9 & 10) IIRC it happens early too. I've always assumed it was either udev or hal or some some other automatic process that mucks with device nodes. Regards, Andy _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
