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Wysocki" , Samuel Holland , Shuah Khan , Srinivas Kandagatla , Thomas Gleixner , Waiman Long , Wilken Gottwalt , Will Deacon Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] hwspinlock: refactor headers into public provider/consumer pair Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-sunxi@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: Intel Finland Oy - BIC 0357606-4 - c/o Alberga Business Park, 6 krs, Bertel Jungin Aukio 5, 02600 Espoo On Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 11:44:25AM +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote: > > > And if so, would be this series acceptable > > > as-is then (modulo the better include-sorting mentioned by Andy)? > > > > *From my experience it's not the Q "will they or not?", the Q is "when?" > > they start abusing it. I really prefer to hide as much as possible from > > I totally agree with you on that. > > > day 1. Maybe the structure can be split to two? Currently IIO has a > > I also thought that keeping some internal header might provide that > safety. When looking into it, I didn't see an obvious and somewhat > elegant way. Even more, I got a better picture of why Bjorn named the > current approach "unergonomic". I got some ideas which look doable in my > time frame. I will try going the full route, after all. Thanks! Looking forward for the rest, the cleanup is quite good, no added lines. -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko