It is a very good idea to do that!

ffado is maintained by a developer. If he's willing to move it, I'm willing to rebuild jack to support it.

Thanks Dan for this news !

It's stable enough but we can't bring it in unless it can work with our kernel. The new-stack-old-stack confusion should be gone by now, but there are a couple of things like udev rules (for /dev/fw* instead of /dev/raw1394) that we need to clear up first.

I need one or two firewire users to check out and report their outcome at:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=100732

At this point of time we don't see the need to provide custom rules to enforce a group-writable node, mainly because we don't want to override upstream's method of creating device-based permissions for /dev/fw*. If your gear does not work, annoy ffado to ship some rules with proper device IDs or alternatively, complain to ieee1394 that your /dev/fw1 is not being created with group r/w set (cite 50-udev-default.rules).

What you can do:

1) chmod 660 /dev/fw1 && chown root:video (or audio) and put yourself in that group
2) chmod 666 /dev/fw1 and be done with it
3.1) do (1) or (2) from /etc/rc.local to make it persist -OR-
3.2) write your own udev rule

Further reading: https://ieee1394.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Juju_Migration#Character_device_files.2C_block_device_files