firewire: new stack is no longer experimental
The new stack is now recommended over the old one if used for industrial
video (IIDC/DCAM) or for storage devices (SBP-2) due to better
performance, improved compatibility, added features, and security. It
should also be functionally on par with and is more secure than the old
ieee1394 stack in the use case of consumer video devices.
IP-over-1394 support for the new stack is currently emerging, and a
backend of the firedtv DVB driver to the new stack should be available
soon.
The one remaining area where the old stack is still required are audio
devices, as the new stack is not yet able to support the FFADO FireWire
audio framework.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
diff --git a/drivers/ieee1394/Kconfig b/drivers/ieee1394/Kconfig
index 5842458..f102fcc 100644
--- a/drivers/ieee1394/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/ieee1394/Kconfig
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
source "drivers/firewire/Kconfig"
config IEEE1394
- tristate "Stable FireWire stack"
+ tristate "Legacy alternative FireWire driver stack"
depends on PCI || BROKEN
help
IEEE 1394 describes a high performance serial bus, which is also
@@ -33,11 +33,9 @@
module will be called ohci1394.
NOTE:
-
- You should only build either ohci1394 or the new firewire-ohci 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
@@ -46,12 +44,7 @@
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.
comment "PCILynx controller requires I2C"
depends on IEEE1394 && I2C=n
@@ -105,7 +98,7 @@
default n
config IEEE1394_ETH1394
- tristate "IP networking over 1394"
+ tristate "IP networking over 1394 (experimental)"
depends on IEEE1394 && EXPERIMENTAL && INET
select IEEE1394_ETH1394_ROM_ENTRY
help