[Bug 6290] Re: DV capture over Firewire is broken (no rights for /dev/raw1394)

[Andy Whitcroft]

This is at least in part a Kernel related issue.  There are two firewire
stacks in the kernel, the old one (which this bug was originally opened
against) which has serious security configurability issues, and a new
one which has them resolved.  For many of the recent releases both the
firewire stacks have been available, but the older one selected by
default.  From Maverick this choice has been reversed such that the new
stack is the default.  This should resolve the security handling of the
interfaces and resolve this issue for kino on maverick and later.
Please let us know if you are testing on Maverick and this is not the
case.

For Lucid the switch to the new stack by default was deemed to risky
before release as it is an LTS.  Therefore we went with the old stack on
Lucid, but the new can be selected by switching the blacklisting in
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-firewire.conf.  Now that Lucid is released we
cannot just change the default over to the new stack for everyone, the
regression potential is too great for an LTS.  However there are several
work-arounds available, switching to the new stack, changing the group
on the bluetooth devices, or running the applications with more
priviledge via sudo.

Based on this I am going to close the Maverick task for the kernel Fix
Released, and close the Lucid task for the kernel Won't Fix.

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Andy Whitcroft (apw)

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Released

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Lucid)
       Status: New => Won't Fix

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Lucid)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Andy Whitcroft (apw)

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DV capture over Firewire is broken (no rights for /dev/raw1394)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/6290
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