Hi Duncan,
I assume you are referring to the CONFIG_FIREWIRE kernel config option.
I'm pasting the Kconfig excerpt for the kernel team to reference when
considering to enable this option:
comment "Enable only one of the two stacks, unless you know what you are doing"
depends on EXPERIMENTAL
config FIREWIRE
tristate "New FireWire stack, EXPERIMENTAL"
depends on EXPERIMENTAL
select CRC_ITU_T
help
This is the "Juju" FireWire stack, a new alternative implementation
designed for robustness and simplicity. You can build either this
stack, or the old stack (the ieee1394 driver, ohci1394 etc.) or both.
Please read http://ieee1394.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Juju_Migration
before you enable the new stack.
To compile this driver as a module, say M here: the module will be
called firewire-core.
This module functionally replaces ieee1394, raw1394, and video1394.
To access it from application programs, you generally need at least
libraw1394 version 2. IIDC/DCAM applications also need libdc1394
version 2. No libraries are required to access storage devices
through the firewire-sbp2 driver.
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Kernel Team (ubuntu-kernel-team)
Status: New => Triaged
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Enable new Firewire stack in default kernel config
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/276463
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