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Message-ID: <20250310-unique-ref-v6-4-1ff53558617e@pm.me>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 08:50:09 +0000
From: Oliver Mangold <oliver.mangold@...me>
To: 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>, Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>, Trevor Gross <tmgross@...ch.edu>, Asahi Lina <lina@...hilina.net>
Cc: rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Oliver Mangold <oliver.mangold@...me>
Subject: [PATCH v6 4/5] rust: kbuild: provide `RUSTC_HAS_DO_NOT_RECOMMEND` symbol

From: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>

Rust 1.85.0 (current stable version) stabilized [1]
`#[diagnostic::do_not_recommend]` [2].

In order to use it across all supported Rust versions, introduce a new
Kconfig symbol for it.

This allows to perform conditional compilation based on it, e.g. on the
use site to enable the attribute:

    #[cfg_attr(RUSTC_HAS_DO_NOT_RECOMMEND, diagnostic::do_not_recommend)]
    impl A for i32 {}

An alternative would have been to `allow` the following warning:

    #![allow(unknown_or_malformed_diagnostic_attributes)]

However, that would lose the checking for typos across all versions,
which we do not want to lose.

One can also use the Kconfig symbol to allow the warning in older
compilers instead, to avoid repeating the `cfg_attr` line above in all
use sites:

    #![cfg_attr(
        not(RUSTC_HAS_DO_NOT_RECOMMEND),
        expect(unknown_or_malformed_diagnostic_attributes)
    )]

That still loses the checking for typos in older versions, but we still
keep it in newer ones, thus we should still catch mistakes eventually.

In this case we can promote it to `expect` as shown above, so that we do
not forget to remove these lines if we stop using the attribute somewhere.

Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/132056 [1]
Link: https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/attributes/diagnostics.html#the-diagnosticdo_not_recommend-attribute [2]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/CANiq72mYfhuRWkjomb1vOMMPOaxvdS6qjfVLAwxUw6ecdqyh2A@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>
---
 init/Kconfig | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 12b0847603b20fe1d8c70c4c57dabc924efe697b..ed1abb1beec0767f3696dbb6ac9844ba7e0610c9 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -147,6 +147,9 @@ config CC_HAS_COUNTED_BY
 config RUSTC_HAS_COERCE_POINTEE
 	def_bool RUSTC_VERSION >= 108400
 
+config RUSTC_HAS_DO_NOT_RECOMMEND
+	def_bool RUSTC_VERSION >= 108500
+
 config PAHOLE_VERSION
 	int
 	default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/pahole-version.sh $(PAHOLE))

-- 
2.48.1