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On 10/19/12 09:25, Dag-Erling Smørgrav 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

(e) is still quite useful and something I expect to have Just Work on 
any modern operating system

The only reason I think this makes sense is because of the 
suspend/resume bugs. This is otherwise, as far as I'm concerned, a 
serious POLA violation. That said, I thought the same thing about 
removing sbp(4) from GENERIC and there is not too much point in having 
firewire without sbp.
-Nathan