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Authored by Stefan Richter
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Exists in master and in 7 other branches imx_3.0.35_4.1.0, imx_3.10.17_1.0.1_ga, imx_3.10.53_1.1.0_ga, imx_3.14.28_1.0.0_ga, smarc-imx_3.10.53_1.1.0_ga, smarc-imx_3.14.28_1.0.0_ga, smarc-l5.0.0_1.0.0-ga

ieee1394: schedule for removal 

All application domains that are supported by the old ieee1394 driver
stack are supported by the newer firewire driver stack too.  There is
now good and extensive experience with the newer stack from deployment
in Fedora since F7 as well as by enthusiast users of other
distributions.

The new drivers have consequently been recommended as the default ones
since 2.6.33, in order to fix some severe usability problems of FireWire
on Linux due to limitations of the old stack.  It is now high time to
announce when the obsolete drivers will be removed.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Acked-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>

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542 542 sensors) wich are also supported by the gspca_zc3xx driver
543 543 (which supports 53 USB-ID's in total)
544 544 Who: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
  545 +
  546 +----------------------------
  547 +
  548 +What: old ieee1394 subsystem (CONFIG_IEEE1394)
  549 +When: 2.6.37
  550 +Files: drivers/ieee1394/ except init_ohci1394_dma.c
  551 +Why: superseded by drivers/firewire/ (CONFIG_FIREWIRE) which offers more
  552 + features, better performance, and better security, all with smaller
  553 + and more modern code base
  554 +Who: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>