Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] hwspinlock: refactor headers into public provider/consumer pair

Wolfram Sang
2026-02-09T19:51:55Z

Hi Bjorn,

thanks for the reply!

> > Moving maintainers from CC to To ;) Do you, in general, approve this
> > change to the headers?
>
> Certainly, I don't think we should force unnatural slicing of drivers
> across the source tree.

Cool, glad you like it.

> I've always found the current model unergonomic, resolving this part
> might very well have the side effect that Andy is looking for (and I'd
> welcome that).

Yeah probably, but frankly the task of redesigning hwlock-allocation is
a bit exceeding my bandwidth for this project. Can we make this a second
step on top of this series? And if so, would be this series acceptable
as-is then (modulo the better include-sorting mentioned by Andy)?

Hope you are well,

Wolfram