Re: only ieee1394 from 2.4.20 works for me

[Ben Collins]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 03:33:39PM +0100, Kai Engert wrote:
> In the last year I have been playing with a variety of combinations of 
> ieee1394 controllers, machines, external mass storage devices and linux 
> kernel versions. So have some friends of mine.
> 
> The only version that works for us is the ieee1394 code that was 
> included with kernel version 2.4.20.
> 
> (I removed drivers/ieee1394 completely, and replaced it with 
> drivers/ieee1394 from 2.4.20)
> 
> Using that snapshot, we are able to transfer data to disks and video 
> from a camcorder just fine, in all combinations we have tested.
> 
> Every other kernel version, both older or newer than 2.4.20, is broken. 
> We either see random errors, or writing data to disks stalls 
> immediately, or daisy chained devices don't work.
> 
> I'm currently using the official Fedora core 1 series kernels, patched 
> that way, and it works like a charm.
> 
> Please consider to use the 2.4.20 ieee1394 snapshot in future 2.4.x 
> releases.

It's pretty strange that I haven't heard of such problems. Maybe you
would consider trying to debug the problem rather than reverting to
source that is several years old (and that I know is broken).

Latest 2.4.x code (that which is in our SVN repo) works fine for me.

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