firewire: cdev: add ioctls for isochronous resource management
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Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:41:27 -0500
From: Jay Fenlason <fenlason@redhat.com>
Subject: [Patch V4] Add ISO resource management support
with several changes to the ABI and implementation. Only the part of
the ABI which enables auto-reallocation and auto-deallocation is
included here.
This implements ioctls for kernel-assisted allocation of isochronous
channels and isochronous bandwidth. The benefits are:
- The client does not have to have write access to the /dev/fw* device
corresponding to the IRM.
- The client does not have to perform reallocation after bus resets.
- Channel and bandwidth are deallocated by the kernel if the file is
closed before the client deallocated the resources. Thus resources
are released even if the client crashes.
It is anticipated that future in-kernel code (firewire-core IRM code;
the firewire port of firedtv), will use the fw-iso.c portions of this
code too.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Tested-by: David Moore <dcm@acm.org>
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