Re: [PATCH 01/11] firewire: cdev: reference-count client instances

[David Moore]

On Sun, 2009-01-04 at 16:24 +0100, Stefan Richter wrote:
> The lifetime of struct client instances must be longer than the lifetime
> of any client resource.
> 
> This fixes a possible race between fw_device_op_release and transaction
> completions.  It also prepares for new ioctls for isochronous resource
> management which will involve delayed processing of client resources.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: David Moore <dcm@xxxxxxx>

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