On 10/19/12 09:25, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
Firewire is
- a significant security risk
- an obstacle to functining suspend / resume on many systems
- rapidly becoming obsolete
- available as a module
The attached patch removes it from GENERIC across the board. Any
serious objections before I commit it to head?
DES
(e) is still quite useful and something I expect to have Just Work on
any modern operating system
The only reason I think this makes sense is because of the
suspend/resume bugs. This is otherwise, as far as I'm concerned, a
serious POLA violation. That said, I thought the same thing about
removing sbp(4) from GENERIC and there is not too much point in having
firewire without sbp.
-Nathan
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