Comment 2 for bug 855538

according to v4l documentation, device files will be created in /dev/v4l/by-{path,id} for detected devices that are v4l-capable.

I'm pretty sure camera/still can be rewritten to use something within gstreamer rather than xawtv.

Anyway, it's a starting point and given that we know where to start working on this, I'll mark as triaged, importance: medium as it'd be good to eliminate dependencies on stuff not in main.