On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 06:23:14PM +0100, jbd wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I don't know if it's the right place to ask but i have a em2821 video > device which is not recognized by default (eb1a:2821) > > To make it work with mplayer for example, i have to do the following : > > $ modprobe em28xx card=9 #(which correspong to the DVC90 device) > $ echo eb1a 2821 > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/em28xx/new_id > # now i can use the device with mplayer > $ mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:outfmt=yuy2 > > It works well. Since i load the em28xx kernel with the card=9 option, it > seems to me that i can't use other em28xx hardware at the same time, but > i'm not well aware of that kind of things. > > Until today, i was used to patch the kernel source to add the product id > 2821 to the em28xx_id_table in media/video/em28xx/em28xx-cards.c but i'd > like to find a smoother solution. I thought i found it with the dynamic > id support trick ;) > > Any idea is welcome !
Just send a patch that adds your new device ids to the driver source, as per the documentation in Documentation/SubmittingPatches and we will be glad to add it so that you do not have to do this in the future. thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Linux-usb-users@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
