On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 02:36:07PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > This thread has meandered pretty far afield from the original topic > proposal, and it's not clear whether there is something that is worth > talking about at the kernel summit. I don't _think_ there is, but it's > possible I've missed something. Please speak up if there's something > that you think would be worth having a face-to-face discussion about. Having gone and found the context to refresh my memory I do see there was the discussion about providing an interface for drivers to more easily manage the lifetime of objects allocated for userspace use (which devm_ isn't). I'm not sure if that needs a KS discussion or someone to step up and try to code something though.