Re: Changes to the FireWire kernel drivers in Linux 4.4...4.8

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

On Sep 23 Takashi Sakamoto wrote:
> On Sep 22 2016 22:05, Stefan Richter wrote:
> > Linux 4.4 (10 January 2016)
[...]
> > snd-firewire-lib
> >   - numerous changes for additional device driver support
> >   - Handle "unexpected protocol" error with some BeBoB devices, e.g.
> >     M-Audio FireWire 1814.  
> 
> This is for a regression which comes from a series of work to
> restructure firewire-lib. So it's not newly added.
> 
> The restructuring is done by an idea to split 'data block processing'
> layer from 'isochronous packet processing' layer. This is needed to
> integrate firewire-digi00x/firewire-tascam because models which
> supported by these new drivers are not compliant to IEC 61883-6.
> 
> You can see information about a part of protocols which the models use
> in below web-pages:
> http://subversion.ffado.org/wiki/digi003rack
> http://subversion.ffado.org/wiki/Tascam/FW-1804
> 
> This is aim of the 'numerous changes'.

Thanks for the explanations.  I edited the changelog at
ieee1394.wiki.kernel.org accordingly.
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