A number of V4L drivers have a mod param to specify their preferred minors.
This is because it is often desirable for applications to have a static /dev
name for a particular device. However, using minors has several disadvantages:
1) the requested minor may already be taken
2) using a mod param is driver specific
3) it requires every driver to add a param
4) requires configuration by hand
This patch introduces an "index" attribute that when combined with udev rules
can create static device paths like this:
/dev/v4l/by-path/pci-0000\:00\:1d.2-usb-0\:1\:1.0-video0
/dev/v4l/by-path/pci-0000\:00\:1d.2-usb-0\:1\:1.0-video1
/dev/v4l/by-path/pci-0000\:00\:1d.2-usb-0\:1\:1.0-video2
$ ls -la /dev/v4l/by-path/pci-0000\:00\:1d.2-usb-0\:1\:1.0-video0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2008-04-28 00:02 /dev/v4l/by-path/pci-0000:00:1d.2-usb-0:1:1.0-video0 -> ../../video1
These paths are steady across reboots and should be resistant to rearranging
across Kernel versions.
video_register_device_index is available to drivers to request a
specific index number.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Philips <bphilips@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@outflux.net>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
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