From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261344AbUBVOeK (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Feb 2004 09:34:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261370AbUBVOeK (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Feb 2004 09:34:10 -0500 Received: from p10068181.pureserver.de ([217.160.75.209]:49424 "EHLO www.kuix.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261344AbUBVOeH (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Feb 2004 09:34:07 -0500 Message-ID: <4038BDC3.9030304@kuix.de> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 15:33:39 +0100 From: Kai Engert Reply-To: kai.engert@gmx.de User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030721 wamcom.org X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: only ieee1394 from 2.4.20 works for me Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In the last year I have been playing with a variety of combinations of ieee1394 controllers, machines, external mass storage devices and linux kernel versions. So have some friends of mine. The only version that works for us is the ieee1394 code that was included with kernel version 2.4.20. (I removed drivers/ieee1394 completely, and replaced it with drivers/ieee1394 from 2.4.20) Using that snapshot, we are able to transfer data to disks and video from a camcorder just fine, in all combinations we have tested. Every other kernel version, both older or newer than 2.4.20, is broken. We either see random errors, or writing data to disks stalls immediately, or daisy chained devices don't work. I'm currently using the official Fedora core 1 series kernels, patched that way, and it works like a charm. Please consider to use the 2.4.20 ieee1394 snapshot in future 2.4.x releases. Best Regards, Kai PS: Please CC me on replies.