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

[Stefan Richter]

On Feb 02 Peter Hurley wrote:
> 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.

Actually there are no 3.19- hosts that speak fwserial; there are only
staging hosts that do so.  So, with this patch added, certain staging
hosts would become unable to talk with certain other staging hosts (and
with future Linux hosts, once fwserial gets merged upstream).

Both fwserial-the-implementation and fwserial-the-protocol are your own,
and as yet unmerged.  (In addition, there does not yet exist a second
implementation, AFAIK.)  So I'd say there is still opportunity to improve
the protocol even in incompatible ways if justified.  Switching to
valid identifiers may very well be such a justifiable change.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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