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

Bjorn Andersson
2026-02-09T21:38:00Z

On Mon, Feb 09, 2026 at 08:51:46PM +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> 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?

I'm okay with that. It's winter and the yak might need its fur.

> And if so, would be this series acceptable
> as-is then (modulo the better include-sorting mentioned by Andy)?
>

Sounds good, I'll pick up your v2 once we get out of the merge window
and share a immutable branch for the other subsystems.

> Hope you are well,
>

Likewise,
Bjorn

> Wolfram
>