22 Feb
2015
22 Feb
'15
7:49 p.m.
Takashi Iwai wrote:
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?
That the driver keeps a reference to the fw_unit even after the device has been unplugged.
Regards, Clemens