On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 11:17:28PM -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > As noted by Guus Sliepen, switching from a functioning driver to an > experimental driver with no library support is not going to cause the > latter to be improved. It's simply annoying to the user.
that is a pretty bold incompetent statement, for all relevant libraries patches exists. take them out of the corresponding git repos. > The linux1394.org people say: > > At the time of this writing (12/2007), there are still multiple > problems with the new FireWire kernel driver stack (alias Juju) > compared to the old stack [...] > > Regarding Linux 2.6.22 and 2.6.23, the best advice to Linux > distributors (kernel packagers) as well as to regular users is: Build > only the old IEEE 1394 drivers. > > http://wiki.linux1394.org/JujuMigration et ceterum censo aboves quote is from 1 of the 2 maintainers. the other maintainer considered it fit enough for fedora stable release 7 and 8. also lenny will "not" release with 2.6.22 nor 2.6.23, 2.6.23 superseeds 2.6.22 and for relevant testers out there 2.6.24-rc5 is available. aboves page has direct links to userspace patches, integrate them. the new stack has many advantages: - leaner codebase (less than 8k lines of code compared to 30k lines of code in the old stack) - cleaned-up and improved in-stack APIs (with the side effect of getting rid of a bunch of old bugs) - design (no kernel threads, compared to one subsystem thread and one thread per FireWire controller in the old stack) the switch to juju allowed to close a nr of *longstanding* reports, plus there is no known security problems unlike the old ieee1394 stack. best regards -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
