[Debian-eeepc-devel] Enable camera autosuspend in udev rule

[Alan Jenkins]

On 10/21/09, Sven Arvidsson <sa at whiz.se> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 16:52 +0100, Darren Salt wrote:
>> > but I think different models have different webcams,
>>
>> Not just different models; my 901 has a camera with USB ID 05e3:0505.
>
> So, wouldn't it be easier to do what Fedora does; enable autosuspend for
> uvcvideo in the kernel and back it out if it causes problems?

debian-eeepc doesn't provide specially modified kernels.  AIUI
mainline Fedora is more adventurous with kernel patches than mainline
Debian.  E.g. see
<http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-source.html#s-acceptance>.

Anyway, it's irrelevant whether it's in-kernel or not.  A udev rule
should be able to just match on DRIVER=="uvcvideo", if that's what you
want to try.  (Possibly it needs DRIVERS instead or some similar
alteration, but it's definitely possible in principle).

Alan