Removing firewire support from GENERIC

[Tom Evans]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> wrote:
> Firewire is
>
>  - a significant security risk
>  - an obstacle to functining suspend / resume on many systems
>  - rapidly becoming obsolete
>  - available as a module
>
> The attached patch removes it from GENERIC across the board.  Any
> serious objections before I commit it to head?
>
> DES

Hi DES

Would dcons over firewire still work in GENERIC, with firewire as a module?

Cheers

Tom