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From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] ALSA: fireworks/bebob/dice/oxfw:
	fix	kernel oops at unplugging during streaming
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 00:06:32 +0100
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Takashi Sakamoto wrote:
> With this patchset, each driver keeps a reference to FireWire unit till
> all of ALSA applications close its character devices. This may be against
> IEEE 1394 bus driver developers' expectation to high-level drivers.

The fw_unit reference counting was designed for situations like this.


Regards,
Clemens