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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/firewire/Kconfig')
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1 files changed, 34 insertions, 26 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/firewire/Kconfig b/drivers/firewire/Kconfig index 4509024..13efcd3 100644 --- a/drivers/firewire/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/firewire/Kconfig @@ -1,28 +1,29 @@ -comment "A new alternative FireWire stack is available with EXPERIMENTAL=y" - depends on EXPERIMENTAL=n - -comment "Enable only one of the two stacks, unless you know what you are doing" - depends on EXPERIMENTAL +comment "You can enable one or both FireWire driver stacks." +comment "See the help texts for more information." config FIREWIRE - tristate "New FireWire stack, EXPERIMENTAL" - depends on EXPERIMENTAL + tristate "FireWire driver stack" select CRC_ITU_T help - This is the "Juju" FireWire stack, a new alternative implementation - designed for robustness and simplicity. You can build either this - stack, or the old stack (the ieee1394 driver, ohci1394 etc.) or both. - Please read http://ieee1394.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Juju_Migration - before you enable the new stack. + This is the new-generation IEEE 1394 (FireWire) driver stack + a.k.a. Juju, a new implementation designed for robustness and + simplicity. + See http://ieee1394.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Juju_Migration + for information about migration from the older Linux 1394 stack + to the new driver stack. To compile this driver as a module, say M here: the module will be called firewire-core. This module functionally replaces ieee1394, raw1394, and video1394. To access it from application programs, you generally need at least - libraw1394 version 2. IIDC/DCAM applications also need libdc1394 - version 2. No libraries are required to access storage devices - through the firewire-sbp2 driver. + libraw1394 v2. IIDC/DCAM applications need libdc1394 v2. + No libraries are required to access storage devices through the + firewire-sbp2 driver. + + NOTE: + FireWire audio devices currently require the old drivers (ieee1394, + ohci1394, raw1394). config FIREWIRE_OHCI tristate "OHCI-1394 controllers" @@ -37,11 +38,9 @@ config FIREWIRE_OHCI stack. NOTE: - - You should only build either firewire-ohci or the old ohci1394 driver, - but not both. If you nevertheless want to install both, you should - configure them only as modules and blacklist the driver(s) which you - don't want to have auto-loaded. Add either + If you want to install firewire-ohci and ohci1394 together, you + should configure them only as modules and blacklist the driver(s) + which you don't want to have auto-loaded. Add either blacklist firewire-ohci or @@ -50,12 +49,7 @@ config FIREWIRE_OHCI blacklist dv1394 to /etc/modprobe.conf or /etc/modprobe.d/* and update modprobe.conf - depending on your distribution. The latter two modules should be - blacklisted together with ohci1394 because they depend on ohci1394. - - If you have an old modprobe which doesn't implement the blacklist - directive, use "install modulename /bin/true" for the modules to be - blacklisted. + depending on your distribution. config FIREWIRE_OHCI_DEBUG bool @@ -77,3 +71,17 @@ config FIREWIRE_SBP2 You should also enable support for disks, CD-ROMs, etc. in the SCSI configuration section. + +config FIREWIRE_NET + tristate "IP networking over 1394 (EXPERIMENTAL)" + depends on FIREWIRE && INET && EXPERIMENTAL + help + This enables IPv4 over IEEE 1394, providing IP connectivity with + other implementations of RFC 2734 as found on several operating + systems. Multicast support is currently limited. + + NOTE, this driver is not stable yet! + + To compile this driver as a module, say M here: The module will be + called firewire-net. It replaces eth1394 of the classic IEEE 1394 + stack. |