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Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 14:34:52 -0500
From: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
To: Arne Caspari <arnem@informatik.uni-bremen.de>
Cc: Dan Dennedy <dan@dennedy.org>,
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Subject: Re: linux1394 patches merged
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> Since neither "raw1394" nor "video1394" are drivers specific to the 
> devices they define matches for, no other ( specialized ) driver can 
> ever get a device object. I am developing a v4l2 driver for the IIDC 
> cameras which is based on the "video-2-1394" driver which again is 
> designed around the device object and the callbacks of the ieee1394 bus 
> driver. This driver never gets loaded since "raw1394" is the first match 
> for the device signature and I had to patch "raw1394" and "video1394" 
> not to match on anything.

Maybe we need some sort of priority for device matching, or maybe a
"generic" to "specific" probing model.

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