linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 00/12] Quality of life improvements for pin-init

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Date:   Wed, 19 Jul 2023 15:23:23 +0000
From:   Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@...ton.me>
To:     Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>,
        Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@...il.com>,
        Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@...il.com>
Cc:     Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>, Gary Guo <gary@...yguo.net>,
        Björn Roy Baron <bjorn3_gh@...tonmail.com>,
        Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@...ton.me>,
        Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>,
        Andreas Hindborg <nmi@...aspace.dk>,
        rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/12] Quality of life improvements for pin-init

On 19.07.23 16:20, Benno Lossin wrote:
> This patch series adds several improvements to the pin-init api:
> - a derive macro for the `Zeroable` trait,
> - makes hygiene of fields in initializers behave like normal struct
>    initializers would behave,
> - prevent stackoverflow without optimizations
> - add `..Zeroable::zeroed()` syntax to zero missing fields.
> - support arbitrary paths in initializer macros
> 
> This is the second version of this patch series.
> * v1: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/20230624092330.157338-1-benno.lossin@proton.me/
> 
> Changes not present on modified commits:
> v1 -> v2:
> - implement `Zeroable` for `Opaque`,
> - remove blanket impl of `PinInit` for `Init` and make it a supertrait
>    instead,
> - add `{pin_}chain` functions to execute code after initialization,
> - update the example macro expansion

I forgot to mention that this patch series is based on rust-dev [1],
as it depends on Gary's `paste!` macro.

[1]: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/tree/rust-dev
     Repository: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux.git rust-dev

-- 
Cheers,
Benno