Yes, there would be some benefits to provide the new drivers as an opt-in alternative, i.e. enabled in the build configuration but blacklisted to prevent automatic loading: - Asynchronous performance of 1394a buses (a.k.a. FireWire 400) is indeed considerably higher in the new firewire drivers. - They are more secure due to physical DMA filtering and possibly finer-grained character device file permissions. - Having the new drivers may help when trying to debug issues with FireWire devices. - Upstream development activities are focused on the new drivers. - Advanced users of pro/ semi-pro FireWire applications may be interested to try the new drivers.
However,the new drivers are of lesser usefulness on distributions which still provide libraw1394 v1 instead of v2. SBP-2 (storage) devices would indeed be the only device class that can be accessed through the new drivers without libraw1394 v2 and libdc1394 v2. -- Enable new Firewire stack in default kernel config https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/276463 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
