When I want to select one of my webcams to do a video conference I am presented
with /dev/video0, video1 etc, the normal lowlevel device names. But it used to
be, at least a few months ago, that the webcams were shown by their friendlier
name like "HD Pro Webcam C920", which makes easier to select the correct one.

I thought this was of my recent new installation of tumbleweed, but when I
booted my old tumbleweed it had changed as well, now only showing lowlevel
device names. In my opinion a regression from a user point of view.

The plasma hardware info tab shows the friendly name, so it is still read by
the system but not shown to v4l2-ctl and webcam applications.

Has this been dropped or has this been changed so it can be activated again?