Re: [PATCH v3 03/11] devm-helpers: introduce devm_mutex_init

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Le 14/12/2023 à 13:48, George Stark a écrit :
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> Hello Christophe
> 
> On 12/14/23 13:06, Christophe Leroy wrote:
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>> So you abandonned the idea of using mutex.h ?
> 
> I'm not the one who make a choice here. The patch [1] you're talking
> about was seen by everyone but it seems like no one had shown interest.
> For me personally approach with #define mutex_destroy is not very usual
> but if even slight mixing device with mutex.h is unacceptable what else
> can we do? Avoiding the need to allocate devm slot for empty
> mutex_destroy is more important.
> 

Why would a forward declaration of struct device in mutex.h be 
unacceptable when it is done in so many headers ?

$ git grep "struct device;" include/ | wc -l
164



> Should I make series #4 with the patch [1] to give it a last chance?

Yes, lets give it a try

> 
> [1]
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/377e4437-7051-4d88-ae68-1460bcd692e1@xxxxxxxxxx/T/#m3f6df30ffccaccb1df4669a327f349164f572931
> 

Christophe




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