Re: 2.6.28 changes in-kernel name for UVC device ?

From: Ionut Leonte
Date: Tue Jan 20 2009 - 22:30:22 EST


On Tuesday 20 January 2009 19:13:45 you wrote:
> Kay Sievers wrote:
> > You may just disable the firefire drivers if you don't need them.
>
> It is not even necessary to disable the drivers; it would be sufficient
> to not force-load the video1394 module. (Or to fix the udev rule.)
> Presence of a Firewire card does not cause video1394 to be auto-loaded;
> only certain types of FireWire cameras cause respective uevents and thus
> autoloading of the special-purpose driver video1394. Ergo, Ionut's
> userland has a configuration somewhere which loads video1394 explicitly.

It's most likely related to my kernel being monolithic - the only modules I
have are out-of-tree ones (like the binary nvidia driver and ndiswrapper).
Perhaps it's time I reconsidered my monolithic aproach to kernel building and
start compiling stuff as modules again.
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