linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] rust: sync: Make Guard::new() public

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Message-ID: <1903f1afd3c48434293cf2c9a258645ab69f20fe.camel@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 17:43:46 -0500
From: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
To: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>
Cc: rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Miguel
 Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>, Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@...il.com>, Boqun Feng
 <boqun.feng@...il.com>, Gary Guo <gary@...yguo.net>, 
 Björn Roy Baron <bjorn3_gh@...tonmail.com>, Benno Lossin
 <benno.lossin@...ton.me>, Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@...nel.org>, Trevor
 Gross <tmgross@...ch.edu>, Martin Rodriguez Reboredo <yakoyoku@...il.com>,
 Valentin Obst <kernel@...entinobst.de>, Filipe Xavier <felipe_life@...e.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] rust: sync: Make Guard::new() public

BTW - anyone else we're waiting for to get this pushed? Asking because I
realized something else I wanted to do was actually expose type aliases for
different types of Guard types, but wasn't sure if I should do that in this
series or a separate series

On Fri, 2024-11-01 at 10:11 +0100, Alice Ryhl wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 1, 2024 at 12:10 AM Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Since we added a Lock::from_raw() function previously, it makes sense to
> > also introduce an interface for creating a Guard from a reference to a Lock
> > for instances where we've derived the Lock from a raw pointer and know that
> > the lock is already acquired, something we do in the KMS API.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>
> 

-- 
Cheers,
 Lyude Paul (she/her)
 Software Engineer at Red Hat

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