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IDK how all that works but I will say that the result of this would (in a normal filesystem) create a link named
configs/c.1/uvc.usb0
yes, but that link would point tofunctions/uvc.usb0
relative to its own dir. This doesn't exist and your symlink would be broken, presumably the special file system there doesn't like that.Edit: Apparently that's not the problem and you're totally supposed to run an ln command that should logically result in a broken symlink, thanks to kernel driver sysfs abuse.
You can check this project : https://github.com/showmewebcam/showmewebcam
It's uses buildroot and it's easy to change the sources for your need (I've added the wifi support)