• [$] The reverting of revocable

    From LWN.net@86:200/23 to All on Fri Feb 13 06:40:09 2026
    Transient devices pose a special challenge for an operating-system kernel.
    They can disappear at any time, leaving behind kernel data structures that
    no longer refer to an existing device, but which may still be in use by
    unknown kernel code. Managing the resulting lifecycle issues has
    frustrated kernel developers for years. In September 2025, the revocable resource-management patch series
    from Tzung-Bi Shih appeared to offer a partial solution to this problem.
    Since then, though, other problems have arisen, and the planned merging of
    this series into the 7.0 release has been called off.

    https://lwn.net/Articles/1058041/
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