Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754817AbZAKUbp (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:31:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752772AbZAKUbg (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:31:36 -0500 Received: from BISCAYNE-ONE-STATION.MIT.EDU ([18.7.7.80]:33331 "EHLO biscayne-one-station.mit.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751023AbZAKUbg (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:31:36 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/11] firewire: cdev: reference-count client instances From: David Moore Reply-To: dcm@acm.org To: Stefan Richter Cc: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 12:31:18 -0800 Message-Id: <1231705878.3538.77.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.2 (2.24.2-3.fc10) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0.00 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 729 Lines: 17 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 Reviewed-by: David Moore -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/