Re: function call fw_iso_resource_mange(..) (core-iso.c) does not return

[Stephan Gatzka]

> A third (fourth?) way to fix it --- feasible or not --- would be to 
> break
> the dependency between the worklets.  In this case, use a timer to 
> cancel
> outbound transactions if the request-transmit IRQ event was not 
> received
> before a timeout.  We had such a timeout in the older ieee1394 drivers 
> and
> we also had it in earlier versions of the firewire drivers, at a risk 
> of a
> race between CPU and OHCI.

Why do we need a timer? If we guarantee that bus_reset_work() always 
make progress (if we put it into its own queue), it should always be 
able to complete the corresponding completion object the other works are 
waiting for.

Regards,

Stephan
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