http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=586172 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=586172#c13 --- Comment #13 from Stefan Richter <stefan-r-nvbz@s5r6.in-berlin.de> 2010-04-25 23:32:41 UTC ---
I'm going to enable CONFIG_FIREWIRE for the Factory kernel. Should the old stack be enabled at all?
By now, the new drivers support all of the hardware that the old drivers support, except for the moderately rare (and no longer produced) ALi PCI-FireWire controllers and the extremely rare NForce2 (which don't fully workwith the old stack either) and AFAIK the rare and ancient Apple UniNorth v1 controllers. Still, since Fedora has been the only distribution to ship the new drivers until recently, it may make sense to install the old drivers too as a fallback for unforeseen issues. Hard to say whether such a parallel installation or a single-stack installation will result in least support issues. The drivers as well as the low-level libraries libraw1394 and libdc1394 are fit to work seamlessly either way.
What enforces that the firewire modules are higher priority?
The way the kernel's makefiles are ordered, the driver core will first attempt to bind firewire-ohci before ohci1394 if both have been loaded into the kernel or statically linked into the kernel. A modular build together with shipped modprobe blacklist entries as listed at https://ieee1394.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Juju_Migration#How_to_suppress_au... gives explicit control though. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.