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Firewire Maintainer Is Looking For Help Testing IEEE-1394 Devices On Linux 6.12
While not as exciting as some of the shiny new features for Linux 6.12 like real-time going mainline and Lunar Lake and Battlemage graphics by default, the Firewire (IEEE-1394) subsystem has seen some significant alterations this cycle
While not as exciting as some of the shiny new features for Linux 6.12 like real-time going mainline and Lunar Lake and Battlemage graphics by default, the Firewire (IEEE-1394) subsystem has seen some significant alterations this cycle. Takashi explains in the pull request of Firewire changes for Linux 6.12:"The batch of changes includes the followwing: - Replacing tasklet with usual workqueue for isochronous context - Replacing IDR with XArray - Utilizing guard macro where possible - Printing deprecation warning when enabling debug parameter of firewire-ohci module In the context, the batch of packets is processed in the specific queue, thus the timing jitter caused by task scheduling is not so critical.
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