Re: [PATCH] firewire: time out in fw_core_remove_card

[Stefan Richter]

I wrote:
> This allows "modprobe -r firewire-ohci" (or card unbinding in general)
> to proceed after 40 seconds even if there is a reference counting bug or
> other shutdown bug in upper layers.

Hmm, this doesn't work quite perfectly yet if there are userspace 
clients which keep a device open.  fw-cdev needs to be trained to let go 
of a device as gracefully as fw-sbp2 does nowadays.
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