Re: Missing /dev/video[N] devices...?

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Nick Pelling <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Hi everyone,
>
>I'm trying to bring up the 2.6.37 kernel from scratch on a new 
>Samsung S5PC100-based board, but have hit a media problem. Though my 
>various v4l2 devices are all registering OK during the boot process 
>and end up visible in /sys/class/video4linux , they never manage to 
>become visible in /dev , i.e.
>
>	# ls /dev/video*
>	ls: /dev/video*: No such file or directory
>
>	# ls /sys/class/video4linux/
>	video0   video1   video14  video2   video21  video22
>
>	# ls /sys/class/video4linux/video0/
>	dev        index      name       subsystem  uevent
>
>	# cat /sys/class/video4linux/video0/name
>	s5p-fimc.0:m2m
>
>	# cat /sys/class/video4linux/video0/uevent
>	MAJOR=81
>	MINOR=0
>	DEVNAME=video0
>
>I've tried enabling everything that seems relevant in the kernel's 
>menuconfig options, but it seems as though I've omitted some crucial 
>piece of the v4l2 infrastructure. Any suggestions for what's missing?
>
>Thanks!, ....Nick Pelling....
>
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I thought udev normally makes those nodes.

On embedded systems there is a different, smaller user space app responding to hotplug events including firmware load requests.

-Andy
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