Re: [PATCH] firewire: core: check for 1394a compliant IRM, fix inaccessibilityof Sony camcorder

[H.S.]

On 02/06/10 02:26 PM, Stefan Richter wrote:
> 
> I committed the patch to linux1394-2.6.git now, exposed it in the
> linux-next branch, and will send a pull request sometime next week.
> 
> I marked the commit to be back-merged into the stable kernel branches
> (2.6.32.y and newer).  Distributors will pick it up from there at their
> leisure, or earlier if they get a distro bug report that points them to
> the commit.
> 
> Thanks for testing the patched kernel.

Great! I am glad I was able to help.

> 
> I suppose either the local node became root node (node with highest node
> ID) and thus the camcorder stopped doing bus management things, or the
> camcorder chose the optimum gap count 5 for some reason and thus the
> Linux node saw no reason to do its bus management routine.  If you are
> very curious, you can look at node IDs and gap counts and more with the
> FireWire inspection utility gscanbus.


Okay. Thanks again for the explanations.

Warm regards.

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