Re: [libdc] Old-stack vs New-stack

[Jarod W. <jw...@re...>]

On Tuesday 30 June 2009 12:35:56 Stefan Richter wrote:
> Stefan Richter wrote:
> > Jarod Wilson wrote:
> >> On Tuesday 30 June 2009 11:48:01 Stefan Richter wrote:
> >>> I'm not sure whether 2.6.29.4-167.fc11 contains a backport of the
> >>> mainline 2.6.30 feature extensions to firewire-core and firewire-ohci
> >>> which made the new stack viable for serious IIDC use.
> > ...
> >> Had to look at the patches we're carrying to refresh my memory, but we
> >> do have all the iso allocation functionality in that kernel, i.e., we
> >> have FW_CDEV_VERSION 2.
> >> 
> >>> Furthermore, it doesn't export proper packet reception timestamps if you
> >>> need those.
> >> 
> >> Doesn't look like we have this piece though.
> > 
> > If the version macro is at 2, then the timestamp enhancement is in there
> > too.  (If you derived your patches from git commits or from somebody's
> > firewire quilt series.)
> 
> OTOH, the matching libdc1394 updates have become available in the
> recently released libdc1394 v2.1.2 and are probably not yet part of
> libdc1394-2.1.0-1.fc11.i586.  (Otherwise the Fedora maintainers would
> have released it as a package named libdc1394-2.1.2, wouldn't they?)

Looks like its in the F11 updates-testing repo:

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-6218

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Jarod Wilson
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