linux-toradex.git/drivers/ieee1394/Kconfig, branch master

ieee1394: remove the old IEEE 1394 driver stack

2010-10-11T12:48:03+00:00

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

firewire, ieee1394: update Kconfig help

2009-12-29T18:58:17+00:00

Update the Kconfig help texts of both stacks to encourage a general move
from the older to the newer drivers.  However, do not label ieee1394 as
"Obsolete" yet, as the newer drivers have not been deployed as default
stack in the majority of Linux distributions yet, and those who start
doing so now may still want to install the old drivers as fallback for
unforeseen issues.

Since Linux 2.6.32, FireWire audio devices can be driven by the newer
firewire driver stack too, hence remove an outdated comment about audio
devices.  Also remove comments about library versions since the 2nd
generation of libraw1394 and libdc1394 is now in common use; details on
library versions can be read at the wiki link from the help texts.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter

firewire: new stack is no longer experimental

2009-06-21T08:53:26+00:00

The new stack is now recommended over the old one if used for industrial
video (IIDC/DCAM) or for storage devices (SBP-2) due to better
performance, improved compatibility, added features, and security.  It
should also be functionally on par with and is more secure than the old
ieee1394 stack in the use case of consumer video devices.

IP-over-1394 support for the new stack is currently emerging, and a
backend of the firedtv DVB driver to the new stack should be available
soon.

The one remaining area where the old stack is still required are audio
devices, as the new stack is not yet able to support the FFADO FireWire
audio framework.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter

firewire: net: add Kconfig item, rename driver

2009-06-14T12:26:29+00:00

The driver is now called firewire-net.  It might implement the transport
of other networking protocols in the future, notably IPv6 per RFC 3146.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter

ieee1394: Kconfig menu touch-up

2008-06-18T22:12:36+00:00

Rename and reorder some prompts and modify some help texts.
The result:

  -------------------- IEEE 1394 (FireWire) support --------------------
  *** Enable only one of the two stacks, unless you know what you are doing ***
  New FireWire stack, EXPERIMENTAL
    OHCI-1394 controllers
    Storage devices (SBP-2 protocol)
  Stable FireWire stack
    OHCI-1394 controllers
    PCILynx controller
    Storage devices (SBP-2 protocol)
      Enable replacement for physical DMA in SBP2
    IP over 1394
    raw1394 userspace interface
    video1394 userspace interface
    dv1394 userspace interface (deprecated)
    Excessive debugging output

The old prompts for reference:

  -------------------- IEEE 1394 (FireWire) support --------------------
  IEEE 1394 (FireWire) support - alternative stack, EXPERIMENTAL
    Support for OHCI FireWire host controllers
    Support for storage devices (SBP-2 protocol driver)
  IEEE 1394 (FireWire) support
    *** Subsystem Options ***
    Excessive debugging output
    *** Controllers ***
    Texas Instruments PCILynx support
    OHCI-1394 support
    *** Protocols ***
    OHCI-1394 Video support
    SBP-2 support (Harddisks etc.)
      Enable replacement for physical DMA in SBP2
    IP over 1394
    OHCI-DV I/O support (deprecated)
    Raw IEEE1394 I/O support

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter

ieee1394: sbp2: more correct Kconfig dependencies

2007-08-02T18:34:16+00:00

Make the option SBP2_PHYS_DMA available on all architectures where it
compiles.  This includes x86-64 where I runtime-tested it successfully.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter

Merge branch 'juju' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6

2007-05-10T20:30:08+00:00

* 'juju' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6: (138 commits)
  firewire: Convert OHCI driver to use standard goto unwinding for error handling.
  firewire: Always use parens with sizeof.
  firewire: Drop single buffer request support.
  firewire: Add a comment to describe why we split the sg list.
  firewire: Return SCSI_MLQUEUE_HOST_BUSY for out of memory cases in queuecommand.
  firewire: Handle the last few DMA mapping error cases.
  firewire: Allocate scsi_host up front and allocate the sbp2_device as hostdata.
  firewire: Provide module aliase for backwards compatibility.
  firewire: Add to fw-core-y instead of assigning fw-core-objs in Makefile.
  firewire: Break out shared IEEE1394 constant to separate header file.
  firewire: Use linux/*.h instead of asm/*.h header files.
  firewire: Uppercase most macro names.
  firewire: Coding style cleanup: no spaces after function names.
  firewire: Convert card_rwsem to a regular mutex.
  firewire: Clean up comment style.
  firewire: Use lib/ implementation of CRC ITU-T.
  CRC ITU-T V.41
  firewire: Rename fw-device-cdev.c to fw-cdev.c and move header to include/linux.
  firewire: Future proof the iso ioctls by adding a handle for the iso context.
  firewire: Add read/write and size annotations to IOC numbers.
  ...

Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[S390] Kconfig: refine depends statements.

2007-05-10T13:46:07+00:00

Refine some depends statements to limit their visibility to the
environments that are actually supported.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

ieee1394: remove garbage from Kconfig

2007-04-29T22:00:33+00:00

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter

ieee1394: more help in Kconfig

2007-04-29T22:00:33+00:00

  - s/Device Drivers/Controllers/
  - clarify who needs pcilynx
  - don't recommend Y for raw1394; M is typically used

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter