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Firewire IEEE-1394 Support Continues To Be Improved With The Linux 6.10 Kernel
While most of you have not thought about or used Firewire (IEEE-1394) in years, there still are some legacy digital video cameras and some professional audio devices relying on the interface
"During the development period of v6.8 kernel, it became evident that there was a lack of helper utilities to trace the initial state of bus, while investigating certain PHYs compliant with different versions of IEEE 1394 specification. When implementing the tracepoints events, it was found that the existing serialization and deserialization helpers for several types of asynchronous packets are scattered across both firewire-core and firewire-ohci kernel modules. The remaining changes constitute the final steps in phasing out the usage of deprecated PCI MSI APIs, in continuation from the previous version."
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