Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 08 Oct 2000 20:35:12 -0400 | From | David Riley <> | Subject | Re: IEEE 1394 "Firewire" |
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"Richard B. Johnson" wrote: > > Hello! > > Has anybody written a driver for the Western Digital (or similar) > PCI / Firewire adapter? > > If not, I'm going to have to write one. If it doesn't exist yet, should > the device be a block device or a character device? There are some new > very-fast disks that now use Firewire so this would seem to imply that > the most "logically-correct" interface would be a block device. However, > it's also used for cameras, scanners, printers, etc. Maybe there should > be a 'firewire core' with some generic devices built around it.
Well, there's already firewire support in general... It would definitely be a block device, since Firewire is basically the next SCSI (large nubers of devices peer-to-peer (i.e. chained and hubless) architecture, fast communications) witht he major improvements of speed, connector size and hot-swappability. Is the firewire driver not backported to 2.2? It's definitely in 2.3/2.4 series. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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