On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 22:19 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> Is there interest for a kmdl bringing back firewire support to the
> kernel?
> 
> This would be fully unsupported by RH, used on your own risk, no
> reporting of broken kernels to RH with this kmdl installed and so on,
> but it would beat recompiling the whole kernel yourself - you would be
> using the stock RH kernel rpm for everything but firewire, and could
> follow the upgrade paths of errata kernels.
> 
> Assuming that oot builds of the firewire module are indeed possible,
> of course.

I think it's likely there is significant interest here.  Dell has long
provided a DKMS enabled ieee1394 module for RHEL4.

I suspect that building the ieee1394 stack out-of-tree is probably no
more difficult for RHEL5 than for RHEL4.  I've been trying to find time
to build a similar package for RHEL5 but it just hasn't happened the
last few weeks.

Later,
Tom


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