ainst the spec, this is
    a firmware bug), performs its idea of gap count optimization and
    resets the bus.
  - Preceding two steps are repeated endlessly, bus never settles,
    regular I/O is practically impossible.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.firewire.user/3913

This is an interoperability regression from the old to the new drivers.
Fix it indirectly by adding the 1394a IRM check.  The spec suggests
three and a half methods to determine 1394a compliance of a remote IRM;
we choose the method of testing the Config_ROM.Bus_Info.generation
field.  This is data that firewire-core should have readily available at
this point, i.e. does not require extra I/O.

Reported-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> (missing 1394a check)
Reported-by: H. S. <hs.samix@gmail.com> (issue with Sony DCR-TRV25)
Tested-by: H. S. <hs.samix@gmail.com>

Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # .32.x and newer

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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