Bug#434551: dvgrab doesn't work on Debian since Linux 2.6.22

[maximilian attems <max@stro.at>]

On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 08:38:32PM +0200, Erik Schanze wrote:
> Hi Debian Kernel Maintainers,
> 
> I'm the Debain Maintainer for dvgrab.
> I have received a bugreport (#432614) for it. Running dvgrab on
> kernel 2.6.21 works with this warning in syslog:
> " kernel: raw1394: WARNING - Program "dvgrab" uses unsupported 
>      isochronous request types which will be removed in a next kernel 
>      release
>   kernel: raw1394: Update your software to use libraw1394's newer 
>      interface"
> 
> Now kernel 2.6.22 is in Debian and the kernel team has disabled 
> CONFIG_IEEE1394, thus rendering dvgrab utterly useless with that 
> kernel. It will give: 
> "raw1394 - failed to get handle: No such file or directory.".

fix the userspace, push upstream to do it.
 
> To get dvgrab working again it is needed to enable the old firewire 
> stack again.

no that is not an option.
the new firewire stack has seen fine fixes upstream and will be
shipped for the next release.
the old stack had to many shortcomings that caused the rewrite!

 
> Please note, that the new firewire stack is not stable, implements
> not all features and there are no libraries released for it
> (libraw1394, libdv1394). 

you need to adapt the userspace, it is early enough in the
release cycle.
 
 
best regards

-- 
maks