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

Wolfram Sang wsa+renesas at sang-engineering.com
Mon Jan 26 02:29:26 PST 2026


> > Providers need it, especially the 'priv' member. Consumers won't see it.
> 
> But can't we make it opaque?
> 
> We may have getters and setters for the priv member...

I think we could do that.

Two drivers use the bank member, but only for the device
(lock->bank->dev). That can probably be refactored away, I'd guess.




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