Re: Issue with firewire from 2.6.35.9 to 2.6.36.1

From: Stefan Richter
Date: Tue Dec 07 2010 - 03:27:57 EST


On Dec 06 Robin Cook wrote:
> 07:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6315 Series Firewire Controller [1106:3403]
>
> The modprobe firewire-ohci quirks=17 worked to get the devices being
> created again.

I wonder which of our options is preferable:
- Change fw-ohci from MSI blacklisting to whitelisting. Agere FW643
rev 07 is the only chip that can be whitelisted.
- Simply drop MSI support altogether.
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