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Stefan Richter 66fa12c571 ieee1394: remove the old IEEE 1394 driver stack
The drivers
  - ohci1394 (controller driver)
  - ieee1394 (core)
  - dv1394, raw1394, video1394 (userspace ABI)
  - eth1394, sbp2 (protocol drivers)
are replaced by
  - firewire-ohci (controller driver)
  - firewire-core (core and userspace ABI)
  - firewire-net, firewire-sbp2 (protocol drivers)
which are more featureful, better performing, and more secure than the older
drivers; all with a smaller and more modern code base.

The driver firedtv in drivers/media/dvb/firewire/ contains backends to both
ieee1394 and firewire-core.  Its ieee1394 backend code can be removed in an
independent commit; firedtv as-is builds and works fine without ieee1394.

The driver pcilynx (an incomplete controller driver) is deleted without
replacement since PCILynx cards are extremely rare.  Owners of these cards
use them with the stand-alone bus sniffer driver nosy instead.

The drivers nosy and init_ohci1394_dma which do not interact with either of
the two IEEE 1394 stacks are not affected by the ieee1394 subsystem removal.

There are still some issues with the newer firewire subsystem compared to
the older one:
  - The rare and quirky controllers ALi M52xx, Apple UniNorth v1, NVIDIA
    NForce2 are even less well supported by firewire-ohci than by ohci1394.
    I am looking into the M52xx issue.
  - The experimental firewire-net is reportedly less stable than its
    experimental cousin eth1394.
  - Audio playback of a certain group of audio devices (ones based on DICE
    chipset with EAP; supported by prerelease FFADO code) does not work yet.
    This issue is still under investigation.
  - There were some ieee1394 based out-of-the-mainline drivers.  Of them,
    only lisight, an audio driver for iSight webcams, seems still useful.
    Work is underway to reimplement it on top of firewire-core.

All these remainig issues are minor; they should not stand in the way of
overall better user experience of IEEE 1394 on Linux, together with a
reduction in support efforts and maintenance burden.  The coexistence of two
IEEE 1394 kernel driver stacks in the mainline since 2.6.22 shall end now,
as announced earlier this year.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2010-10-11 14:48:03 +02:00
Stefan Richter 9f6d3c4b76 tools/firewire: add userspace front-end of nosy
This adds nosy-dump, the userspace part of nosy, the IEEE 1394 traffic
sniffer for Texas Instruments PCILynx/ PCILynx2 based cards.  Author is
Kristian Høgsberg.

The files added here are taken from
git://anongit.freedesktop.org/~krh/nosy commit ee29be97 (2009-11-10)
with the following changes by Stefan Richter:
  - Parts pertaining to the kernel module removed from Makefile.
  - dist target removed from the Makefile.
  - Mentioned nosy-dump in the Kconfig help to nosy's kernel component.
  - Add copyright notice to nosy-dump.c.  This is a duplicate of the
    respective notice in the kernel component nosy.c except for a time
    span of 2002 - 2006, according to Kristian's git log.

"git shortlog decode-fcp.c list.h nosy-dump.[ch]" from nosy's git
repository:

Jonathan Woithe (1):
      Save logs on Ctrl-C

Kristian Høgsberg (11):
      Pull over nosy from mercurial repo.
      Remove some fields from default view, add logging feature.
      Use infinite time out for poll(), mark more detail fields.
      Fix byte ordering macro.
      Add decoding of iso data and lock packets.
      Add flag to indicate data length field.
      Add cycle start packet decoding, add --iso and --cycle-start flags.
      Distinguish between phy-packets and 0-length iso data.
      Fix transaction and stats view.
      Add simple AV/C decoder.
      Don't break down on big payloads.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Acked-by: Kristian Høgsberg <krh@bitplanet.net>
2010-07-27 11:04:11 +02:00
Stefan Richter 286468210d firewire: new driver: nosy - IEEE 1394 traffic sniffer
This adds the traffic sniffer driver for Texas Instruments PCILynx/
PCILynx2 based cards.  The use cases for nosy are analysis of
nonstandard protocols and as an aid in development of drivers,
applications, or firmwares.

Author of the driver is Kristian Høgsberg.  Known contributers are
Jody McIntyre and Jonathan Woithe.

Nosy programs PCILynx chips to operate in promiscuous mode, which is a
feature that is not found in OHCI-1394 controllers.  Hence, only special
hardware as mentioned in the Kconfig help text is suitable for nosy.

This is only the kernelspace part of nosy.  There is a userspace
interface to it, called nosy-dump, proposed to be added into the tools/
subdirectory of the kernel sources in a subsequent change.  Kernelspace
and userspave component of nosy communicate via a 'misc' character
device file called /dev/nosy with a simple ioctl() and read() based
protocol, as described by nosy-user.h.

The files added here are taken from
git://anongit.freedesktop.org/~krh/nosy commit ee29be97 (2009-11-10)
with the following changes by Stefan Richter:
  - Kconfig and Makefile hunks are written from scratch.
  - Commented out version printk in nosy.c.
  - Included missing <linux/sched.h>, reported by Stephen Rothwell.

"git shortlog nosy{-user.h,.c,.h}" from nosy's git repository:

Jonathan Woithe (2):
      Nosy updates for recent kernels
      Fix uninitialised memory (needed for 2.6.31 kernel)

Kristian Høgsberg (5):
      Pull over nosy from mercurial repo.
      Use a misc device instead.
      Add simple AV/C decoder.
      Don't break down on big payloads.
      Set parent device for misc device.

As a low-level IEEE 1394 driver, its files are placed into
drivers/firewire/ although nosy is not part of the firewire driver
stack.

I am aware of the following literature from Texas Instruments about
PCILynx programming:
      SCPA020A - PCILynx 1394 to PCI Bus Interface TSB12LV21BPGF
                 Functional Specification
      SLLA023  - Initialization and Asynchronous Programming of the
                 TSB12LV21A 1394 Device

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Acked-by: Kristian Høgsberg <krh@bitplanet.net>
2010-07-27 11:04:10 +02:00
Stefan Richter 5d7db0499e firewire, ieee1394: update Kconfig help
Update the Kconfig help texts of both stacks to encourage a general move
from the older to the newer drivers.  However, do not label ieee1394 as
"Obsolete" yet, as the newer drivers have not been deployed as default
stack in the majority of Linux distributions yet, and those who start
doing so now may still want to install the old drivers as fallback for
unforeseen issues.

Since Linux 2.6.32, FireWire audio devices can be driven by the newer
firewire driver stack too, hence remove an outdated comment about audio
devices.  Also remove comments about library versions since the 2nd
generation of libraw1394 and libdc1394 is now in common use; details on
library versions can be read at the wiki link from the help texts.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2009-12-29 19:58:17 +01:00
Stefan Richter 0c53decdd0 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>
2009-06-21 10:53:26 +02:00
Stefan Richter b9530fd6c3 firewire: net: add Kconfig item, rename driver
The driver is now called firewire-net.  It might implement the transport
of other networking protocols in the future, notably IPv6 per RFC 3146.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2009-06-14 14:26:29 +02:00
Stefan Richter 30b0aa7c9a firewire: Kconfig help update
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2008-08-19 18:47:56 +02:00
Stefan Richter f05e21b39f firewire: state userland requirements in Kconfig help
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2008-07-25 20:10:33 +02:00
Stefan Richter a7b64b8704 firewire: Kconfig menu touch-up
Emphasize the recommendation to build only one stack.
Trim the prompts to better fit into short attention spans.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2008-06-19 00:12:35 +02:00
Stefan Richter ad3c0fe8b8 firewire: debug interrupt events
This adds debug printks for asynchronous transmission and reception and
for self ID reception.  They can be enabled at module load time, and at
runtime via /sys/module/firewire_ohci/parameters/debug.

Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jwilson@redhat.com>

Also added:  Logging of interrupt event codes and of cancelled AT
packets.

The code now depends on a Kconfig variable.  This makes it easier to
build firewire-ohci without the feature or to make it an option in the
future.  The variable is currently hidden and always on.

This feature inflates firewire-ohci.ko by 7 kB = 27% on x86-64 and by
4 kB = 23% on i686.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2008-04-18 17:55:34 +02:00
Stefan Richter 0a8da30dc7 firewire: update Kconfig help text
Remove some less necessary information, point out that video1394 and
dv1394 should be blacklisted along with ohci1394.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2008-03-14 00:56:59 +01:00
Stefan Richter a1134dd48d firewire: point to migration document
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2007-10-07 13:48:41 +02:00
Stefan Richter fe77d4f283 firewire: add Kconfig help on building both stacks
Alas that won't work so good, because nobody reads help texts.

I thought about adding some crude multiple choice selection (build the
old stack, build the new stack, build both stacks).  It's possible, but
it would introduce awkward dummy config variables.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2007-06-29 17:32:07 +02:00
Stefan Richter 9a60731d00 firewire: prefix modules with firewire- instead of fw-
Of course everybody immediately associates "fw-" with FireWire, not
firmware or firewall or whatever.  But "firewire-" has a nice ring to
it too.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Acked-by: Kristian Hoegsberg <krh@bitplanet.net>
2007-05-27 23:21:01 +02:00
Kristian Høgsberg e175569c46 firewire: Use lib/ implementation of CRC ITU-T.
With the CRC ITU-T implementation available in lib/ we can use that instead.

This also fixes a bug in the topology map crc computation.

Signed-off-by: Kristian Hoegsberg <krh@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (fixed Kconfig)
2007-05-10 18:24:13 +02:00
Stefan Richter 11f494ee25 firewire: rename CONFIG_FW to CONFIG_FIREWIRE
to avoid confusion with CONFIG_FW_LOADER.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Acked-by: Kristian Høgsberg <krh@redhat.com>
2007-03-20 23:27:19 +01:00
Stefan Richter 227e7d8194 firewire: additional help in Kconfig
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2007-03-09 22:02:39 +01:00
Stefan Richter 22a38e72bc firewire: put old and new stack into same Kconfig submenu
Screenshot from "make menuconfig":
...
  ?????????????????????? IEEE 1394 (FireWire) support ???????????????????????
  ?  Arrow keys navigate the menu.  <Enter> selects submenus --->.          ?
...
  ? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?
  ? ?    <M> IEEE 1394 (FireWire) support (JUJU alternative stack, experim? ?
  ? ?    <M>   Support for OHCI firewire host controllers                 ? ?
  ? ?    <M>   Support for storage devices (SBP-2 protocol driver)        ? ?
  ? ?    <M> IEEE 1394 (FireWire) support                                 ? ?
  ? ?    ---   Subsystem Options                                          ? ?
  ? ?    [ ]   Excessive debugging output                                 ? ?
...
  ?                    <Select>    < Exit >    < Help >                     ?
  ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2007-03-09 22:02:38 +01:00
Stefan Richter 35b7541c8f firewire: typo in Kconfig
Correct a typo.  Also spell FireWire consistently.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2007-03-09 22:02:37 +01:00
Stefan Richter 9c87da4eb3 firewire: mark fw-core as experimental
The new stack is not yet stable WRT functionality and APIs.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2007-03-09 22:02:37 +01:00
Kristian Høgsberg 9ba136d0fe firewire: Add SBP-2 protocol driver for storage devices.
Signed-off-by: Kristian Høgsberg <krh@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2007-03-09 22:02:34 +01:00
Kristian Høgsberg ed5689122f firewire: Add driver for OHCI firewire host controllers.
Signed-off-by: Kristian Høgsberg <krh@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2007-03-09 22:02:34 +01:00
Kristian Høgsberg 3038e353cf firewire: Add core firewire stack.
Signed-off-by: Kristian Høgsberg <krh@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2007-03-09 22:02:33 +01:00