netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/3] using guard/_

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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 19:09:57 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] using guard/__free in networking

On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 23:31:25 +0100 Johannes Berg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> So I started playing with this for wifi, and overall that
> does look pretty nice, but it's a bit weird if we can do
> 
>   guard(wiphy)(&rdev->wiphy);
> 
> or so, but still have to manually handle the RTNL in the
> same code.

Dunno, it locks code instead of data accesses.
Forgive the comparison but it feels too much like Java to me :)
scoped_guard is fine, the guard() not so much.

But happy for other netdev maintainers to override me..

Do you have a piece of code in wireless where the conversion
made you go "wow, this is so much cleaner"?