[PATCH 0/2] [Jaunty] LP#276463 -- enable the new FIREWIRE stack

[Tim Gardner]

Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> We have had a request to enable the new firewire stack (CONFIG_FIREWIRE
> et al) to allow testing of that stack.  The new stack is not yet mature,
> but it does appear that most of the development is going on here and we
> should be expecting this stack to take over from the original in time.
> 
> It seems that the new driver provides significant performance improvements
> for firewire attached storage.  With no other changes users of these
> devices would be able to experiment with and test the new drivers.
> Without this support in the kernel these is little need to update the
> userspace libraries to levels needed for this functionality.  By enabling
> it now we make it easier for userspace to be tested and developed in
> parallel with it.
> 
> Following the instructions on this migration web page I have put together
> parallel modifications to the kernel and to module-init-tools to allow
> these new modules to be built but to be blacklisted:
> 
>     http://ieee1394.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Juju_Migration
> 
> Following this email are two patches.  The first is the change to the
> kernel configuration files to enable this stack.  The second is a debdiff
> against the current module-init-tools to blacklist the new modules.
> 
> Proposing this for Jaunty.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> -apw
> 
> Andy Whitcroft (1):
>   UBUNTU: enable the new firewire stack allowing parallel testing
> 
>  debian/config/amd64/config |    6 +++++-
>  debian/config/i386/config  |    6 +++++-
>  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> 

Makes sense to me. Config patch applied to linux. module-tools-init
3.3-pre11-4ubuntu18 uploaded.

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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com