Changes to the FireWire kernel drivers in Linux 3.7

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

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.
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Stefan Richter
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