linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v2 19/20] rust: allow extracting the buffer from a CString

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Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 08:52:45 +0100
From: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>
To: Alistair Francis <alistair@...stair23.me>
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Subject: Re: [RFC v2 19/20] rust: allow extracting the buffer from a CString

On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 4:12 AM Alistair Francis <alistair@...stair23.me> wrote:
>
> The kernel CString is a wrapper aroud a KVec. This patch allows
> retrieving the underlying buffer and consuming the CString. This allows
> users to create a CString from a string and then retrieve the underlying
> buffer.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alistair Francis <alistair@...stair23.me>

I believe the idiomatic naming for a method like this is `into_vec`.

Alice