Re: Removing firewire support from GENERIC

2012-10-19 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 10/19/12 09:25, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Firewire is - a significant security risk - an obstacle to functining suspend / resume on many systems - rapidly becoming obsolete - available as a module The attached patch removes it from GENERIC across the board. Any serious objections b

Re: Removing firewire support from GENERIC

2012-10-19 Thread Sean Bruno
On Fri, 2012-10-19 at 07:25 -0700, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Once more, with patch. > > DES Ack. I think this is sensible. Sean ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe,

Re: Removing firewire support from GENERIC

2012-10-19 Thread Justin Hibbits
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Tom Evans wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > > Firewire is > > > > - a significant security risk > > - an obstacle to functining suspend / resume on many systems > > - rapidly becoming obsolete > > - available as a module >

Re: Removing firewire support from GENERIC

2012-10-19 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Firewire is > > - a significant security risk > - an obstacle to functining suspend / resume on many systems > - rapidly becoming obsolete > - available as a module > > The attached patch removes it from GENERIC across the board. A

Re: Removing firewire support from GENERIC

2012-10-19 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
umass # Disks/Mass storage - Requires scbus and da -# FireWire support -device firewire # FireWire bus code -# sbp(4) works for some systems but causes boot failure on others -#device sbp # SCSI over FireWire (Requires scbus and da) -device fwe # Ethernet over FireWire (non-standard!) -device

Removing firewire support from GENERIC

2012-10-19 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Firewire is - a significant security risk - an obstacle to functining suspend / resume on many systems - rapidly becoming obsolete - available as a module The attached patch removes it from GENERIC across the board. Any serious objections before I commit it to head? DES -- Dag-Erling Smørg

Re: Firewire support

2002-08-08 Thread David O'Brien
On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 08:15:18PM -0600, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > Given what they're evidently trying to do with the code (make it available > on an evaluation basis, and then sell licenses to use it in products), it > makes no sense that they would want to release it for use in FreeBSD. To > r

Re: Firewire support

2002-08-08 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 20:20:24 -0500, Peter Schultz wrote: > On Thu, 2002-08-08 at 16:45, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Julian Elischer wrote: > > > On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Katsushi Kobayashi wrote: > > > > Did you suggest the same API should be used on both Darwin and FreeBSD ? > > > > Or, should we sha

Re: Firewire support

2002-08-08 Thread Peter Schultz
On Thu, 2002-08-08 at 16:45, Terry Lambert wrote: > Julian Elischer wrote: > > On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Katsushi Kobayashi wrote: > > > Did you suggest the same API should be used on both Darwin and FreeBSD ? > > > Or, should we share the same code on the device driver level ? > > > > > > Although I ha

Re: Firewire support

2002-08-08 Thread Terry Lambert
Julian Elischer wrote: > On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Katsushi Kobayashi wrote: > > Did you suggest the same API should be used on both Darwin and FreeBSD ? > > Or, should we share the same code on the device driver level ? > > > > Although I have not read the terms and condition carefully, I am afraid > >