Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750724AbWLNDcJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Dec 2006 22:32:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750726AbWLNDcJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Dec 2006 22:32:09 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.25]:45356 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750724AbWLNDcI (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Dec 2006 22:32:08 -0500 Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:32:00 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Gene Heskett cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1 In-Reply-To: <200612132146.41829.gene.heskett@verizon.net> Message-ID: References: <200612132146.41829.gene.heskett@verizon.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1511 Lines: 35 On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Ok, one not so silly Q (IMO) from the resident old fart. I saw, sometime > in the past week, a relatively huge ieee1394 update go by. And I have > some issues with the present 2.6.19 version causeing segfaults and kino > go-aways when trying to capture from my firewire movie camera. Problems > occur when trying to control the camera from kino. > > Is this patchset in this -rc1? If it is, I'll see if I can get a build to > work and check it out. -rc1 does include a reasonably big firewire update, but I'm not sure how it will affect your camera usage. In fact, the ieee1394 people seem to be trying to deprecate the dv1394 stuff, in favour of just raw1394 and user-mode libraries. I think you can tell Kino to use either the DV or the raw interface, but I'm not sure. If you can, try either. The raw interface seems to be horribly misdesigned (security problems), but is the one to use. But by all means, give it a shot, and regardless of whether it works better or not, you might want to cry on the shoulder of Stefan Richter about the issues you see.. Of course, please talk to the Kino people too (although I have absolutely no idea who they would be). Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/