On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 09:56 +0100, Stefan Richter wrote: > (Adding Cc: linux1394-devel) > > Ben Collins wrote at linux-kernel: > > On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 18:21 -0500, Kristian Høgsberg wrote: > >> Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > >>> On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 12:22:29AM -0500, Kristian Høgsberg wrote: > >>>> I'm announcing an alternative firewire stack that I've been working on > >>>> the last few weeks. > >>> Is mainline firewire so hopeless, that you've decided to rewrite it? Could > >>> you show some ugly places in it? > >> Yes. I'm not doing this lightheartedly. It's a lot of work and it will > >> introduce regressions and instability for a little while. > >> > >> My main point about ohci1394 (the old stacks PCI driver) is, that if you > >> really want to fix the issues with this driver, you have to shuffle the > >> code > >> around so much that you'll introduce as many regressions as a clean > >> rewrite. > >> The big problems in the ohci1394 drivers is the irq_handler, bus reset > >> handling and config rom handling. These are some of the strong points of > >> fw-ohci.c: > > > > My main concern is that when I picked up ieee1394 maint myself, it was > > because it was not big-endian or 64-bit friendly. > > I would like to see new development efforts take cleanliness WRT host > byte order and 64bit architectures into account from the ground up. (I > understand though why Kristian made the announcement in this early > phase, and I agree with him that this kind of development has to go into > the open early.)
And yet endianness is not the focus from the ground up in Kristian's work. That was my point. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
