Commit 3014420b authored May 24, 2010 by Stefan Richter

ieee1394: schedule for removal



All application domains that are supported by the old ieee1394 driver
stack are supported by the newer firewire driver stack too.  There is
now good and extensive experience with the newer stack from deployment
in Fedora since F7 as well as by enthusiast users of other
distributions.

The new drivers have consequently been recommended as the default ones
since 2.6.33, in order to fix some severe usability problems of FireWire
on Linux due to limitations of the old stack.  It is now high time to
announce when the obsolete drivers will be removed.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Acked-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>

parent 5c40cbfe

Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

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		@@ -542,3 +542,13 @@ Why: Duplicate functionality with the gspca_zc3xx driver, zc0301 only
		sensors) wich are also supported by the gspca_zc3xx driver
		(which supports 53 USB-ID's in total)
		Who: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>

		----------------------------

		What: old ieee1394 subsystem (CONFIG_IEEE1394)
		When: 2.6.37
		Files: drivers/ieee1394/ except init_ohci1394_dma.c
		Why: superseded by drivers/firewire/ (CONFIG_FIREWIRE) which offers more
		features, better performance, and better security, all with smaller
		and more modern code base
		Who: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>