linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Rust: Implement a unique reference type URef supplementing ARef

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Message-ID: <2025022123-channel-laundry-0393@gregkh>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2025 09:12:16 +0100
From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Oliver Mangold <oliver.mangold@...me>
Cc: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Rust: Implement a unique reference type URef
 supplementing ARef

On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 08:04:34AM +0000, Oliver Mangold wrote:
> For usage with block-mq, we found that having a variant of ARef which is guaranteed to be unique is useful. As chances are it is useful in general, I implemented it as kernel::types::URef. The difference between ARef and URef is basically the same as between Arc and UniqueArc.

Nit, please wrap your changelog text at 72 columns or so, checkpatch
should have warned you about this, right?

thanks,

greg k-h