Laurent Pinchart wrote: > I know this is a topic proposed for the maintainers summit, but given > the number of people who seem to have an opinion and be interested in > dicussing it, would a session at LPC be a better candidate ? I don't > expect the maintainer summit to invite all relevant experts from all > subsystems, that would likely overflow the room. > > The downside of an LPC session is that it could easily turn into a > heated stage fight, and there are probably also quite a few arguments > that can't really be made in the open :-S A separate LPC session for a subsystem or set of subsystems to explore local passthrough policy makes sense, but that is not the primary motivation for also requesting a Maintainer Summit topic slot. The primary motivation is discussing the provenance and navigation of cross-subsystem NAKs especially in an environment where the lines between net, mem, and storage are increasingly blurry at the device level.