Thread: Changes to the FireWire kernel drivers in Linux 3.7
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From: Stefan R. <st...@s5...> - 2012-12-03 22:58:46
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Hi all, linux 3.7, currently available as -rc8 and soon to be finally released, contains the following changes to the IEEE 1394 subsystem: firewire-core: - cdev ioctl ABI: On 64-bit architectures, the kernel wrote 4 bytes too many to non-zero fw_cdev_get_info.bus_reset. This could corrupt user memory in case of x86-32 userland on x86-64 kernel. This was fixed also in kernel 3.6.3, 3.5.7.1, 3.4.15, 3.2.32, 3.0.47. - Seed the random number generator with GUIDs of FireWire nodes. The purpose is not to add entropy but to achieve different seeds on different machines. - internal optimization concerning address handlers firewire-ohci: - More complete TI TSB41BA3D support. (Properly read the local selfID0.i bit. TSB41BA3D is a rarely used 1394b S400β phy.) sbp-target: - minor fixes Enjoy. -- Stefan Richter -=====-===-- ==-- ---== http://arcgraph.de/sr/ |