Comment 1 for bug 276463

Hi Duncan,

I assume you are referring to the CONFIG_FIREWIRE kernel config option. I'm pasting the Kconfig excerpt for the kernel team to reference when considering to enable this option:

comment "Enable only one of the two stacks, unless you know what you are doing"
    depends on EXPERIMENTAL

config FIREWIRE
    tristate "New FireWire stack, EXPERIMENTAL"
    depends on EXPERIMENTAL
    select CRC_ITU_T
    help
      This is the "Juju" FireWire stack, a new alternative implementation
      designed for robustness and simplicity. You can build either this
      stack, or the old stack (the ieee1394 driver, ohci1394 etc.) or both.
      Please read http://ieee1394.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Juju_Migration
      before you enable the new stack.

      To compile this driver as a module, say M here: the module will be
      called firewire-core.

      This module functionally replaces ieee1394, raw1394, and video1394.
      To access it from application programs, you generally need at least
      libraw1394 version 2. IIDC/DCAM applications also need libdc1394
      version 2. No libraries are required to access storage devices
      through the firewire-sbp2 driver.