fwcontrol failure with multiple firewire cards
Hidetoshi Shimokawa
simokawa at FreeBSD.ORG
Sat Jun 28 01:43:29 UTC 2008
To handle multiple card, you need '-u' option to be the first argument
if I remember correctly. I think adding new feature is ok but you should
be careful to change the behavior .
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 6:22 PM, Sean Bruno <sbruno at miralink.com> wrote:
> I noted very strange behavior from all pieces of the firewire stack while
> testing this week when there are multiple firewire cards in a machine.
> Before I start submitting patches to fwcontrol/firewire for these issues, is
> there any signifcant backwards compatibility issues I need to be concerned
> about?
>
> Should I come up with a way to make fwcontrol behave normally unless there
> is a new argument(eg -B to iterate over multiple cards)? Or is ok to trash
> the old behavior in favor of one that understands multiple cards?
>
> Sean
>
>
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