FireWire Patch [8/HEAD]

[Julian Stecklina]

Sean Bruno <sean.bruno at dsl-only.net> writes:

> Ok folks, some time has passed and I was able to get some wisdom from
> the CAM folks in Colorado (Thanks Scott, Justin, Warner, Ken).
>
> For those of you experiencing boot failures with firewire/sbp enabled in
> your configuration, please try the following patch and let me see the
> full boot dmesg.
>
> This is an extensive patch that does "stuff" and "things".  :-)
>
> Mainly, it should behave better at initialization time and play nice
> with CAM and the scheduler via a config_intrhook.  
>
> Let me know --> http://consultcsg.com/firewire.diff

The box that exhibits the problem is currently repurposed for other
tasks. So I cannot test this at the moment. If no one else steps up to
test this, I can test it in a week or so.

Regards,
-- 
Julian Stecklina

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