[alsa-devel] [PATCH 0/4] ALSA: fireworks/bebob/dice/oxfw: fix kernel oops at unplugging during streaming

[Takashi Iwai]

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