the fate of firewire

Arjan van de Ven arjanv at redhat.com
Mon Sep 13 13:44:08 UTC 2004


On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 03:31:50PM +0200, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:

> ... but firewire currently are modules, right ? I don't think disabling
> compilation completely makes any sense at all.  People for whom firewire
> doesn't work well should just not use it

problem is that it gets autoloaded

> Out of curiosity, why is firewire such a problem child ? Are there
> simply no kernel hackers interested in it ?

not sure; the locking for sure smells like dead fish.... :)
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