On do, 2008-04-10 at 21:36 +0200, Duncan Webb wrote:
> I wonder if there is a way to use a udev rule to rename the other devices.
> 
> I think that it would be nicer if a device that has more than one 
> sub-device created a directory in /dev so you would end up with devices 
> like:
> /dev/ivtv0/video
> /dev/ivtv0/vbi
> /dev/ivtv0/radio
> /dev/ivtv0/audio
> /dev/ivtv0/yuv-out or /dev/ivtv0/yuv-encode
> 
> Then it would be easy to write udev rules that made symlinks and there 
> would be some relationship between a module name and a device.

I think that should be possible. You will want to use %n which is the
kernel device number. For example, NAME="ivtv%n/video", SYMLINK+="%k"

http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Howto#Howto_use_udev_rules.21
http://reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html

If you succeed it would be great if you update the wiki how you did it.

Greets
Sander


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