Re: git: cda74c35cb37 - main - firewire: Add deprecation notice

On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 06:12:35PM +0000, Ed Maste wrote:
> commit cda74c35cb37aa8ecb536aae8d93451eafec15df
> 
>   firewire: Add deprecation notice
> 
>   This was originally discussed as part of FreeBSD 15 planning, but did
>   not happen in time.  Add the deprecation notice now, with an expectation
>   that it will be removed before FreeBSD 16.

Oh, but why?  I use it with one of my external HDD boxen and it works fine.
While we rarely see 1394 ports these days on the new computers, adapters
are inexpensive and easily available on the market.  There are people with
various camcorders which support video capture over 1934 and I remember
debugging over it was fast and easy to set up with the dcons(4) driver.

So, might be reconsider this?   If there are some outstanding issues with
it like Giant usage, I'll try to come up with some patches (allow for some
time as I'm not a seasoned kernel hacker).  Thanks,

./danfe