There has been a flaw introduced into the kernel shortly after my last post https://forum.rme-audio.de/viewtopic.php?id=40052 which caused a kernel lockup when re-discovering a FireWire device.

regression report:
https://lore.kernel.org/regressions/8a9 … on.me/T/#u

This commit:
7bec4657b0c9355f235a3dc60578bc200146aabd
Merge tag 'firewire-fixes-6.12-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394
merged this patch:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/2024102503 … mocchi.jp/

which fixes the issue, so our dear Firefaces will work again.

v6.12-rc5 will be the first release the change will be included in.