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From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] Fix devm_kzalloc, its users,
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On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 07:44:54PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, that was my personal take on things; that further discussion
some concrete code to disuss would likely not be productive.  If
someone has time to throw a proof of concept together between now and
the kernel summit, we can always dynamically schedule a slot at that
point.

	    	       	       	    - Ted