Re: [PATCH] staging/fwserial: use correct vendor/version IDs

[Peter Hurley]

On 01/28/2015 03:07 PM, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> The driver was using the vendor ID 0xd00d1e from the FireWire core.
> However, this ID was not registered, and invalid.
> 
> Instead, use the vendor/version IDs that now are officially assigned to
> firewire-serial:
> https://ieee1394.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/IEEE_OUI_Assignments

That's great that we have official OUIs now, but I have to NACK this
patch as is.

The problem is a host with the old OUIs will not recognize a remote
unit with the new OUIs, and vice versa.

Even though the new ids could be added to the unit driver's id_table,
(which would let hosts with the new OUI connect to either OUI remote),
it wouldn't let 3.19- hosts connect to 3.20+ hosts.

Regards,
Peter Hurley




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