rawhide report: 20070112 changes

[Kristian Høgsberg]

Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 06:43:36 -0500, buildsys at redhat.com wrote:
> 
>> kernel-2.6.19-1.2911.fc7
>> ------------------------
>> * Thu Jan 11 2007 Kristian Høgsberg <krh at redhat.com>
>> - Add and enable alternative firewire stack.
> 
> 
> Ooh, shiny. Is this more of a "I am pretty sure it will break" or "I am
> pretty sure it will work" stack?

It's on the "I'm pretty sure it will work" side of the fence :)  The patch is 
taken from Andrew Mortons tree and I've tested it on a range of architectures, 
firewire controllers and firewire devices here.  One caveat, though: only 
storage devices works at this point, user space API and streaming 
functionality is not yet in place.  So for a little while we'll see missing 
features from the firewire stack.  However, I hope to have it back to a level 
where libraw1394 and libdc1394 will work, and where porting the rest is 
reasonably easy within a month.

cheers,
Kristian