kernel/git/stable/linux.git/drivers/ieee1394/eth1394.h, branch master

ieee1394: remove the old IEEE 1394 driver stack

2010-10-11T12:48:03+00:00

The drivers - ohci1394 (controller driver) - ieee1394 (core) - dv1394, raw1394, video1394 (userspace ABI) - eth1394, sbp2 (protocol drivers) are replaced by - firewire-ohci (controller driver) - firewire-core (core and userspace ABI) - firewire-net, firewire-sbp2 (protocol drivers) which are more featureful, better performing, and more secure than the older drivers; all with a smaller and more modern code base. The driver firedtv in drivers/media/dvb/firewire/ contains backends to both ieee1394 and firewire-core. Its ieee1394 backend code can be removed in an independent commit; firedtv as-is builds and works fine without ieee1394. The driver pcilynx (an incomplete controller driver) is deleted without replacement since PCILynx cards are extremely rare. Owners of these cards use them with the stand-alone bus sniffer driver nosy instead. The drivers nosy and init_ohci1394_dma which do not interact with either of the two IEEE 1394 stacks are not affected by the ieee1394 subsystem removal. There are still some issues with the newer firewire subsystem compared to the older one: - The rare and quirky controllers ALi M52xx, Apple UniNorth v1, NVIDIA NForce2 are even less well supported by firewire-ohci than by ohci1394. I am looking into the M52xx issue. - The experimental firewire-net is reportedly less stable than its experimental cousin eth1394. - Audio playback of a certain group of audio devices (ones based on DICE chipset with EAP; supported by prerelease FFADO code) does not work yet. This issue is still under investigation. - There were some ieee1394 based out-of-the-mainline drivers. Of them, only lisight, an audio driver for iSight webcams, seems still useful. Work is underway to reimplement it on top of firewire-core. All these remainig issues are minor; they should not stand in the way of overall better user experience of IEEE 1394 on Linux, together with a reduction in support efforts and maintenance burden. The coexistence of two IEEE 1394 kernel driver stacks in the mainline since 2.6.22 shall end now, as announced earlier this year. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter

Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

2009-01-08T19:05:59+00:00

ieee1394: use internal network device stats

2009-01-07T00:49:02+00:00

Use the network_device_stats field in network_device. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Acked-by: Stefan Richter Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ieee1394: eth1394: trivial sparse annotations

2009-01-04T22:50:35+00:00

Mostly annotations of ether_type as a be16. Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter

ieee1394: eth1394: handle tlabel exhaustion

2007-05-27T21:20:59+00:00

When eth1394 was unable to acquire a transaction label, it just dropped outgoing packets without attempt to resend them later. The transmit queue is now halted if no tlabel is available to ->hard_start_xmit(). A workqueue job is then scheduled to catch the moment when ieee1394 recycled the next lot of tlabels. Fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8402 Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter

ieee1394: eth1394: coding style

2007-04-29T22:00:30+00:00

Adjust white space and line wraps. Remove unnecessary parentheses and braces, unused macros, and some of the more redundant comments. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter

ieee1394: small header cleanup

2007-04-29T22:00:28+00:00

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter

[SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_mac_header()

2007-04-26T05:24:41+00:00

For the places where we need a pointer to the mac header, it is still legal to touch skb->mac.raw directly if just adding to, subtracting from or setting it to another layer header. This one also converts some more cases to skb_reset_mac_header() that my regex missed as it had no spaces before nor after '=', ugh. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ieee1394: add preprocessor constant for invalid csr address

2006-06-12T22:15:31+00:00

Replace occurrences of the magic value ~(u64)0 for invalid CSR address spaces by a named constant for better readability. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter Signed-off-by: Ben Collins

[PATCH] eth1394: workaround limitation in rawiso routines

2005-09-30T19:41:19+00:00

Work around limitation in rawiso routines. Required with 1394b cards on architectures where PAGE_SIZE is 4096. Based on a previous patch by Ben Collins. Signed-off-by: Jody McIntyre Cc: Ben Collins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds