linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 04/22] rust: pin-init: move proc-macro documentation into pin-init crate

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Message-ID: <878qpjg6sj.fsf@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2025 10:34:20 +0100
From: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@...nel.org>
To: "Benno Lossin" <benno.lossin@...ton.me>
Cc: "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>,  "Alice
 Ryhl" <aliceryhl@...gle.com>,  "Trevor Gross" <tmgross@...ch.edu>,
  "Danilo Krummrich" <dakr@...nel.org>,  <rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org>,
  <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/22] rust: pin-init: move proc-macro documentation
 into pin-init crate

"Benno Lossin" <benno.lossin@...ton.me> writes:

> Move the documentation of proc-macros from pin-init-internal into
> pin-init. This is because documentation can only reference types from
> dependencies and pin-init-internal cannot have pin-init as a dependency,
> as that would be cyclic.

`pin_data` et. al. is now re-exported both in `kernel::prelude` and
`kernel::init`, but I guess that is fine?

When you say "can only reference types", do you mean via links in the text?


Best regards,
Andreas Hindborg