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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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thread-safe
This removes the last usage of the Big Kernel Lock from the ieee1394
stack, i.e. from raw1394's (unlocked_)ioctl and compat_ioctl.
The ioctl()s don't need to take the BKL, but they need to be serialized
per struct file *. In particular, accesses to ->iso_state need to be
serial. We simply use a blocking mutex for this purpose because
libraw1394 does not use O_NONBLOCK. In practice, there is no lock
contention anyway because most if not all libraw1394 clients use a
libraw1394 handle only in a single thread.
mmap() also accesses ->iso_state. Until now this was unprotected
against concurrent changes by ioctls. Fix this bug while we are at it.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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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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Add a who-is-who about some locks and list heads in raw1394's struct
definitions.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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An already existing wait queue replaces raw1394's complete_sem which was
maintained in parallel to the wait queue. The role of the semaphore's
counter is taken over by a direct check of what was really counted: The
presence of items in the list of completed requests.
Notes:
- raw1394_release() sleeps uninterruptibly until all requests were
completed. This is the same behaviour as before the patch.
- The macros wait_event and wait_event_interruptible are called with a
condition argument which has a side effect, i.e. manipulation of the
requests list. This side effect happens only if the condition is
true. The patch relies on the fact that wait_event[_interruptible]
does not evaluate the condition again after it became true.
- The diffstat looks unfavorable with respect to added lines of code.
However 19 of them are comments, and some are due to separation of
existing code blocks into two small helper functions.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
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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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