From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.zeus03.de (zeus03.de [194.117.254.33]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B99E1304BBF for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2026 10:16:44 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=194.117.254.33 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1769422606; cv=none; b=BbFu/Jr/SKp0eP9fOtg7smNRpzt9lA45m0ym23RwdBFhHfcG22Py65qwPeq5jP4lHG7VNzuVkDG0gN4ThKV5HvfZoL6L5E0cCEUh+shvpCsez9vLjf67O+iT9DrxigAcstmxyDR5Gl8Q9wvPdI+rdpFln1YBOomTN5gUhIg0LU0= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1769422606; c=relaxed/simple; bh=aJniA+7mtqd+T2ckN/JR/8Xw3cbywiTK+2rTfmY54To=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=TaQgJ2l1NAyN28XcFHbBgDLqQ9h2cOyebcHYYysRAfmEwQZ/KPrAL2dspley9mhNyzrzhwbNh08cqasnhCmayoqZbqPYvDBBZl+W4JvdpNoJPI2RMDLVyF/gzJV/m81Uqf6xJ+gSuJiolrab/27HP28tNysbi3DZvJfu72HS+h8= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=sang-engineering.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=sang-engineering.com; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=sang-engineering.com header.i=@sang-engineering.com header.b=crwXK+As; arc=none smtp.client-ip=194.117.254.33 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=sang-engineering.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=sang-engineering.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=sang-engineering.com header.i=@sang-engineering.com header.b="crwXK+As" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= sang-engineering.com; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id :references:mime-version:content-type:in-reply-to; s=k1; bh=aJni A+7mtqd+T2ckN/JR/8Xw3cbywiTK+2rTfmY54To=; b=crwXK+AsGfSv2yCVxPH0 pZmwvGK9TVs/dpCMF5DDZXl/rKoCfMRa6pWWFbpVr8FgJhyH8SgAFLgRQwPJ+KXw oE/8vzv6gsqP5fBmUVYiVUDe3V4OdQYklAKK3H5ra/FiPiHgcBv2xqMepClGaI2K zH8eVVkJlxdVGHd+8l9UQwVQ/3Puexv2GfqR2JWVRmV8d5YQqtFDAAdH7fb0ZQgI Y0OSb/dLYL9eBDPZ5lzY9g+2xVNLKfXq5gFgLCd/wFxFlxKCKaXz3oG97Y117hjJ HNgFFZ8cI3G7C9ET9WnsPS3vbRs+6w/NJChfna7Sl0Qdzs5ZWuNOxDznae6t2PKX 2Q== Received: (qmail 2705781 invoked from network); 26 Jan 2026 11:16:41 +0100 Received: by mail.zeus03.de with UTF8SMTPSA (TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 encrypted, authenticated); 26 Jan 2026 11:16:41 +0100 X-UD-Smtp-Session: l3s3148p1@swKezUdJzpAujnvz Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2026 11:16:41 +0100 From: Wolfram Sang To: Wilken Gottwalt Cc: Andy Shevchenko , linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org, Alexandre Torgue , Andy Shevchenko , Antonio Borneo , Arnd Bergmann , Baolin Wang , Bjorn Andersson , Boqun Feng , Chen-Yu Tsai , Chunyan Zhang , Danilo Krummrich , David Lechner , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Ingo Molnar , Jernej Skrabec , Jonathan Cameron , Jonathan Corbet , Konrad Dybcio , Lee Jones , Linus Walleij , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-remoteproc@vger.kernel.org, linux-spi@vger.kernel.org, linux-stm32@st-md-mailman.stormreply.com, linux-sunxi@lists.linux.dev, Mark Brown , Maxime Coquelin , Nuno =?utf-8?B?U8Oh?= , Orson Zhai , Peter Zijlstra , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Samuel Holland , Shuah Khan , Srinivas Kandagatla , Thomas Gleixner , Waiman Long , Will Deacon Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] hwspinlock: refactor headers into public provider/consumer pair Message-ID: References: <20260125184654.17843-6-wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com> <20260126111440.67394323@posteo.net> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260126111440.67394323@posteo.net> > wrote the sun6i hwspinlock driver. Currently it is impossible to write external > (out-of-kernel-tree) drivers because of internal structures. And it was a pain Although my use case is more "out-of-directory" than "out-of-tree" ;)