Changes to the FireWire kernel drivers in Linux 3.6

[Stefan R. <st...@s5...>]

Dear all,

Linux kernel 3.6 has been released last Sunday.  It brings a few small
fixes and optimizations to the firewire drivers
[http://marc.info/?l=linux1394-devel&m=134355348001969] and a new sysfs
attribute "/sys/bus/firewire/devices/fw[0-9]*/is_local" which can for
example be used to set special ownership of local nodes' /dev/fw* files
when they are created and launch target-like usermode drivers.

While there aren't many news to report about the firewire kernel drivers,
there is a big release of the FFADO project to celebrate:  v2.1.0 of the
Free FireWire Audio Drivers has been released on September 18th, with
largely expanded hardware support and many improvements.
[http://www.ffado.org/?q=release/2.1.0]

Enjoy,
-- 
Stefan Richter
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