linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 1/5] rust: types: Add Ownable/Owned types

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Message-ID: <Z861yk1hRZUtLtLp@google.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 09:50:02 +0000
From: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>
To: Oliver Mangold <oliver.mangold@...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>, Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@...ton.me>, 
	Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@...nel.org>, Trevor Gross <tmgross@...ch.edu>, 
	Asahi Lina <lina@...hilina.net>, rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/5] rust: types: Add Ownable/Owned types

On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 08:49:43AM +0000, Oliver Mangold wrote:
> From: Asahi Lina <lina@...hilina.net>
> 
> By analogy to AlwaysRefCounted and ARef, an Ownable type is a (typically
> C FFI) type that *may* be owned by Rust, but need not be. Unlike
> AlwaysRefCounted, this mechanism expects the reference to be unique
> within Rust, and does not allow cloning.
> 
> Conceptually, this is similar to a KBox<T>, except that it delegates
> resource management to the T instead of using a generic allocator.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Asahi Lina <lina@...hilina.net>

You can't send a patch by others without adding your own SoB.

Alice