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authorbrandon@ifup.org <brandon@ifup.org>2008-06-20 22:58:53 -0300
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>2008-07-20 07:10:27 -0300
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V4L/DVB (8078): Introduce "index" attribute for persistent video4linux device nodes
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/media')
-rw-r--r--include/media/v4l2-dev.h4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/media/v4l2-dev.h b/include/media/v4l2-dev.h
index 40b0810a595a..9e6e4f18e948 100644
--- a/include/media/v4l2-dev.h
+++ b/include/media/v4l2-dev.h
@@ -96,6 +96,8 @@ struct video_device
int type; /* v4l1 */
int type2; /* v4l2 */
int minor;
+ /* attribute to diferentiate multiple indexs on one physical device */
+ int index;
int debug; /* Activates debug level*/
@@ -347,6 +349,8 @@ void *priv;
/* Version 2 functions */
extern int video_register_device(struct video_device *vfd, int type, int nr);
+int video_register_device_index(struct video_device *vfd, int type, int nr,
+ int index);
void video_unregister_device(struct video_device *);
extern int video_ioctl2(struct inode *inode, struct file *file,
unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg);