linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] regmap: add configurable lock class key for lockdep

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Date:	Mon, 29 Jun 2015 16:34:11 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>
Cc:	Nicolas Boichat <drinkcat@...omium.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@....samsung.com>,
	Antti Palosaari <crope@....fi>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Bard Liao <bardliao@...ltek.com>,
	Oder Chiou <oder_chiou@...ltek.com>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
	Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>,
	alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
	Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] regmap: add configurable lock class key for
 lockdep

On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 04:18:11PM +0200, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:

Please delete unneeded context from replies.

> Leaves us pretty much with only two options. Either add a lock key pointer
> to regmap_config which needs to be manually initialized. Or wrap all
> regmap_init() variants to create a static lock key. I'd slightly prefer the
> later. We can avoid most of the boiler-plate code by using some helper
> macros to generate the wrappers.

It's better to keep the bodges in the core, yes.

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