solved by letting fwnet_remove sleep until all datagrams were flushed. It may sleep almost arbitrarily long since fwnet_remove is executed in the context of a multithreaded (concurrency managed) workqueue. The type of max_payload is changed to u16 here to avoid waste in struct fwnet_packet_task. This value cannot exceed 4096 per IEEE 1394:2008 table 16-18 (or 32678 per specification of packet headers, if there is ever going to be something else than beta mode). Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter C-