Bug#436267: linux-image-2.6.22-1-686: IEEE1394 modules unbuilt in packaged kernel

[maximilian attems <max@stro.at>]

clone 436267 -1
reassign -1 dvgrab
retitle -1 relies on /dev/raw1394
severity -1 important
stop

On Mon, 06 Aug 2007, Curt Howland wrote:

> On Monday 06 August 2007, maximilian attems was heard to say:
> > what are you missing in the yuyu stack?
> 
> At least raw1394, to create an entry /dev/raw1394 so that dvgrab can 
> access a video camera. I don't know what else might have been mixed 
> into the stack to do the work.
> 
> The camera shows up, dmesg shows the following when I plug it in:
> 
> --------------------
> firewire_core: phy config: card 0, new root=ffc1, gap_count=5
> firewire_core: phy config: card 0, new root=ffc1, gap_count=5
> firewire_core: created new fw device fw1 (0 config rom retries)
> --------------------
> 
> But if /dev/raw1394 is gone with a good reason, such is life. You 
> folks are the experts.

fedora disabled due to the same concerns the old IEEE1394 stack.
hmm yes, userspace seem to not have adapted yet.
that's why we prefer to do such change early in the release process.
/dev/raw1394 was already marked deprecated for quite some time.

cloning the bugreport to the "offending" userspace.
 
regards

-- 
maks