Re: "aborting sbp2 command" expected in kernel.org FireWire maybe

On 2004-09-02, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Pat LaVarre wrote:
>> By contrast, in kernel.org source, I see nothing work. Is that also
>> normal?
>
> That I don't know although it may be that some distro's test and
> modify 1394
> to somehow improve it but I have no knowledge. kernel.org is what the
> 1394
> developers write.

Some 2.4 kernels were modified by distributors with respect to
the 1394 drivers, for example Redhats' 2.4.18 kernel or some
kernels of Mandrake 9.x distros. But these modifications were
only merges from linux1394.org which is always more or less
ahead of kernel.org's 1394 drivers.

The major difference between kernel 2.4 and 2.6 is, 2.4 is
strictly in maintenance mode (and began entering maintenance
mode already when 2.5 was started) while 2.6 is still like
a seemless continuation of 2.5. Any new features or re-writes
that are not too intrusive in the eyes of the 2.6 maintainers
go straight into 2.6. This and the fact that 2.6 is much
younger than 2.4 contributes to the phenomenon that a newer
kernel.org kernel may be *more* broken than a slightly older
distribution kernel.

So, brokeness in kernel.org but not in a distro is not exactly
normal, but absolutely possible and not too surprising.

(IMO)

-- 
Stefan Richter
http://arcgraph.de/sr/
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