From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>,
Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>,
Ray Jui <rjui@broadcom.com>,
Scott Branden <sbranden@broadcom.com>,
Broadcom internal kernel review list
<bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com>,
linux-spi@vger.kernel.org, linux-rpi-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org,
Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>,
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [RFT PATCH v2] spi: bcm2835: reduce the abuse of the GPIO API
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2023 11:55:39 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZPWbi3caxQWbn2Wr@smile.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACRpkdaDG30k_OM_xTCM6yOTB3rjzxrsbbrLZpvYCh7e66Zt7g@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Sep 02, 2023 at 06:56:51PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 1, 2023 at 2:31 PM Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> > > > + struct gpiod_lookup_table *lookup __free(kfree) = NULL;
> >
> > > Whoa!
> > > This is really neat.
> > > As noted, it will confuse static checkers at no end, but they just have
> > > to adopt. (CC to Dan C if he now runs into this.)
> >
> > It also doesn't look amazing for humans, it's very not C like...
>
> <linux/cleanup.h> and the __free() macro was introduced by Peter
> Z who also very famously suggested (OTOMH!) that instead of
> adopting Rust to the kernel it would be possible to bring the
> desired Rust features into C.
Competition is always good :-)
> Which is what he does, well the feature has been there for a while
> but he identified it and made it easily accessible.
>
> Now if this path is desirable ... yeah. Maybe a matter of taste.
--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-04 8:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-01 11:15 [RFT PATCH v2] spi: bcm2835: reduce the abuse of the GPIO API Bartosz Golaszewski
2023-09-01 12:15 ` Linus Walleij
2023-09-01 12:30 ` Mark Brown
2023-09-01 12:33 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2023-09-01 12:57 ` Mark Brown
2023-09-02 16:56 ` Linus Walleij
2023-09-04 8:55 ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]
2023-09-05 8:27 ` Dan Carpenter
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