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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] ALSA: fireworks/bebob/dice/oxfw:
	fix	kernel oops at unplugging during streaming
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 18:36:00 +0100
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At Sun, 22 Feb 2015 00:06:32 +0100,
Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> 
> 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.

"This" means which?


Takashi