firewire: cdev: add ioctl for broadcast write requests
authorJay Fenlason, Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Sun, 4 Jan 2009 15:23:29 +0000 (16:23 +0100)
committerStefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:56:44 +0000 (20:56 +0100)
Write transactions to the broadcast node ID are a convenient way to
trigger functions of multiple nodes at once.  IIDC is a protocol which
can make use of this if multiple cameras with same command_regs_base are
connected at the same bus.

Based on
    Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:32:16 -0400
    From: Jay Fenlason <fenlason@redhat.com>
    Subject: [patch] SEND_BROADCAST_REQUEST
Changes:  ioctl_send_request() and ioctl_send_broadcast_request() now
share code.  Broadcast speed corrected to S100.  Check for proper tcode.

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

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