Re: [RFT PATCH v2] spi: bcm2835: reduce the abuse of the GPIO API

[Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko