Hello,
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 08:01:40PM +0100, maximilian attems wrote:
> eth1394 is missing that is by far the less used firewire driver.
But for some people the driver used early in the installation (where a
kernel rebuild is not very convenient).
> the switch to the juju stack allowed to close a huge nr. of bugs.
> the old stack is just not supportable and never was, plus is a
> security nightmare. ieee1394 in fact deserves the Kbuild variable BROKEN.
Well, it worked fine for me, except that the version from 2.4 could
not interoperate with the version from 2.6. The only minor oddity was
that sometimes the logs were flooded with certain warnings (I can dig
them out if necessary).
> i consider that smallish to the *huge* usability improvement
> on not having a strange firewire ethernet device to choose
> for your network connectivity in d-i.
> so no tears for it.
Well, I cannot really argue with you on technical merits, but then it
was one of the (long) supported options for d-i, so please *document*
it properly. I would've started out with an Etch image, if I had known
this regression.
> RH did rewrite the stack and it's main upstream developer ships
> it already enabled in 2 major releases fedora 7 and 8.
> juju has already nicely improved since the 2.6.22 inclusion,
> so still looks for the most promising option for the lenny release.
It would be great if also eth1394 would reappear in the new stack,
especially since the original developer is an @debian.org person.
Greetings
Helge
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