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The drivers
- ohci1394 (controller driver)
- ieee1394 (core)
- dv1394, raw1394, video1394 (userspace ABI)
- eth1394, sbp2 (protocol drivers)
are replaced by
- firewire-ohci (controller driver)
- firewire-core (core and userspace ABI)
- firewire-net, firewire-sbp2 (protocol drivers)
which are more featureful, better performing, and more secure than the older
drivers; all with a smaller and more modern code base.
The driver firedtv in drivers/media/dvb/firewire/ contains backends to both
ieee1394 and firewire-core. Its ieee1394 backend code can be removed in an
independent commit; firedtv as-is builds and works fine without ieee1394.
The driver pcilynx (an incomplete controller driver) is deleted without
replacement since PCILynx cards are extremely rare. Owners of these cards
use them with the stand-alone bus sniffer driver nosy instead.
The drivers nosy and init_ohci1394_dma which do not interact with either of
the two IEEE 1394 stacks are not affected by the ieee1394 subsystem removal.
There are still some issues with the newer firewire subsystem compared to
the older one:
- The rare and quirky controllers ALi M52xx, Apple UniNorth v1, NVIDIA
NForce2 are even less well supported by firewire-ohci than by ohci1394.
I am looking into the M52xx issue.
- The experimental firewire-net is reportedly less stable than its
experimental cousin eth1394.
- Audio playback of a certain group of audio devices (ones based on DICE
chipset with EAP; supported by prerelease FFADO code) does not work yet.
This issue is still under investigation.
- There were some ieee1394 based out-of-the-mainline drivers. Of them,
only lisight, an audio driver for iSight webcams, seems still useful.
Work is underway to reimplement it on top of firewire-core.
All these remainig issues are minor; they should not stand in the way of
overall better user experience of IEEE 1394 on Linux, together with a
reduction in support efforts and maintenance burden. The coexistence of two
IEEE 1394 kernel driver stacks in the mainline since 2.6.22 shall end now,
as announced earlier this year.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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The only user of the i_cindex element in the inode structure is used
is by the firewire drivers. As part of an attempt to slim down the
inode structure to save memory --- since a typical Linux system will
have hundreds of thousands if not millions of inodes cached, a
reduction in the size inode has high leverage.
The firewire driver does not need i_cindex in any fast path, so it's
simple enough to calculate when it is needed, instead of wasting space
in the inode structure.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: krh@redhat.com
Cc: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Based on patch "the scheduled removal of RAW1394_REQ_ISO_{SEND,LISTEN}"
from Adrian Bunk, November 20 2006.
This patch also removes the underlying facilities in ohci1394 and
disables them in pcilynx. That is, hpsb_host_driver.devctl() and
hpsb_host_driver.transmit_packet() are no longer used for iso reception
and transmission.
Since video1394 and dv1394 only work with ohci1394 and raw1394's rawiso
interface has never been implemented in pcilynx, pcilynx is now no
longer useful for isochronous applications.
raw1394 will still handle the request types but will complete the
requests with errors that indicate API version conflicts.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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to clarify who is supposed to set what
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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This considerably reduces the memory requirements for a packet and
eliminates ieee1394's dependency on CONFIG_NET.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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This implements the simultaneous read of the isochronous cycle timer and
the system clock (in usecs). This allows to express the exact receive
time of an ISO packet as a system time with microsecond accuracy.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7773
The counterpart patch for libraw1394 can be found at
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.firewire.devel/8934
Patch update (Stefan R.): Disable preemption and local interrupts.
Prevent integer overflow. Add paranoid error checks and kerneldoc to
hpsb_read_cycle_timer. Move it to other ieee1394_core high-level API
functions. Change comments. Adjust whitespace. Rename struct
_raw1394_cycle_timer.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Acked-by: Pieter Palmers <pieterp@joow.be>
Acked-by: Dan Dennedy <dan@dennedy.org>
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Signed-off-by: Josef Sipek <jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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These includes in ieee1394_core and eth1394 are obsolete.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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Remove unnecessary includes, add missing includes.
Use forward type declarations for some structs.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
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Adjust tabulators, line wraps, empty lines, and comment style.
Update comments in ieee1394_transactions.h and highlevel.h.
Fix typo in comment in csr.h.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
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acquired (aquired)
contiguous (contigious)
successful (succesful, succesfull)
surprise (suprise)
whether (weather)
some other misspellings
Signed-off-by: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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since amdtp driver was deleted
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Jody McIntyre <scjody@modernduck.com>
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Devfs has been disabled in the last kernel releases, so let's
remove it from ieee1394core, raw1394, video1394, dv1394.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Dan Dennedy <dan@dennedy.org>
Signed-off-by: Jody McIntyre <scjody@modernduck.com>
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Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Jody McIntyre <scjody@modernduck.com>
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"ack_code" is assigned (and tested against) negative numbers, but was
declared as "char". Which only works if "char" is signed - which it
necessarily isn't.
So make that signedness assumption specific.
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of class_simple
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
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