> For media-ctl, it is easier to handle major/minor, in order to identify > the associated devnode name. Btw, media-ctl currently assumes that all > devnode devices are specified by v4l.major/v4l.minor.
I suspect part of the motivation for the "id" that corresponds to the adapter field was to make it easier to find the actual underlying device node. While it's trivial to convert a V4L device node from major/minor to the device node (since for major number is constant and the minor corresponds to the X in /dev/videoX), that's tougher with DVB adapters because of the hierarchical nature of the DVB device nodes. Having the adapter number makes it trivial to open /dev/dvb/adapterX. Perhaps my POSIX is rusty -- is there a way to identify the device node based on major minor without having to traverse the entire /dev tree? Devin -- Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs http://www.kernellabs.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
