On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Carsten Meier wrote: > > OK, then simply report back the serial-number to bus-info. The > v4l2-docs explicitly states that this info is intended for users to > select between identical devices: > > quote:------ > __u8 bus_info[32]: > Location of the device in the system, a > NUL-terminated ASCII string. For example: "PCI Slot 4". This > information is intended for users, to distinguish multiple identical > devices. If no such information is available the field may simply count > the devices controlled by the driver, or contain the empty string > (bus_info[0] = 0). > ------------ > > Users should be enabled to select between multiple, identical > devices and as a logical consequence, this information should be > saveable in some config file. The current bus-info changes even if I my > mini-pc changed to standby-mode and woke up again and is therefore > useless for that purpose. > > I hope I convinced you... :)
Not 100%, but it's enough to make me look at this again and re-evaluate. I will add this to my growing list of pvrusb2 tasks for tomorrow... -Mike -- Mike Isely isely @ pobox (dot) com PGP: 03 54 43 4D 75 E5 CC 92 71 16 01 E2 B5 F5 C1 E8 _______________________________________________ pvrusb2 mailing list [email protected] http://www.isely.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pvrusb2
