Bug 64093

Summary:	[udev] missing symlink for vbi
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Christoph Brill (egore) (RESIGNED) <egore>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Greg Kroah-Hartman (RETIRED) <gregkh>
Status:	VERIFIED TEST-REQUEST
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Christoph Brill (egore) (RESIGNED) 2004-09-14 23:44:02 UTC

I had problems accessing the videotext from kdetv after switching to udev. I figured out that kdetv was looking for /dev/vbi0, which did not exist. The symlinks for /dev/video0 and /dev/radio worked fine, so I took a look at the ruleset. After replacing:
KERNEL="vbi[0-9]*",   NAME="v4l/vbi%n"
with
KERNEL="vbi[0-9]*",   NAME="v4l/vbi%n", SYMLINK="vbi%n"
the videotext worked fine again. I don't have enough knowledge of udev, v4l and the gentoo udev ruleset to say if this should be added to the default ruleset, so I leave it up to the developers.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Greg Kroah-Hartman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-10-05 13:57:59 UTC

Can't you just tell kdetv to point to the proper device (in the v4l subdirectory)
instead?

Comment 2 Christoph Brill (egore) (RESIGNED) 2005-06-03 23:17:06 UTC

kdetv relies on /dev/v4l/vbi0 in later versions. so that works fine.... next to
that a symlink is now created by default (iirc).