linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] rust/revocable: add try

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Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2025 13:42:38 +0100
From: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>
To: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@...dia.com>
Cc: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@...ton.me>, 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>,
	Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@...nel.org>,
	Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>, Trevor Gross <tmgross@...ch.edu>,
	rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rust/revocable: add try_with() convenience method

On Sun, Mar 16, 2025 at 09:20:03PM +0900, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> On Sun Mar 16, 2025 at 2:48 AM JST, Benno Lossin wrote:
> > On Sat Mar 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM CET, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> >> On Sat Mar 15, 2025 at 11:17 PM JST, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> >>> On Sat, Mar 15, 2025 at 11:07:44PM +0900, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> >>>> I suppose drivers could add their own macros to do that automatically
> >>>> and reduce code verbosity, at the cost of less cohesion across drivers.
> >>>> Guess I'll go with that if I cannot come with anything better.
> >>>
> >>> Maybe we could do something more specific but yet generic on top (for the
> >>> use-case above), but we still can't assume the exact error code a driver wants
> >>> to derive from failing try_access(). So, maybe a driver specific wrapper is
> >>> indeed what you want on top of what this patch provides.
> >>
> >> So be it! It's not that bad and more flexible in the end.
> >
> > You could have the following signature:
> >
> >     fn try_access_with<R>(&self, on_vacant: Error, f: impl FnOnce(&T) -> Result<R>) -> Result<R>;
> >
> > That will use the `on_vacant` error instead of hard coding ENXIO. But
> > maybe it's better to just have such a wrapper in drivers that actually
> > need it (ie even with the concrete error specified and not a parameter).
> > You'll know better through actually trying to write a driver.
> 
> Yeah, having the extra on_vacant parameter would require callers to
> specify the error they need every time, where it is supposed to be
> a per-driver constant.

I think the signature proposed by Benno is useful, since even specific drivers
may return a different error code depending on the semantic context of where
this call fails.

> So I guess a per-driver macro or wrapper would be more ergonomic in the end.

I think this makes sense as an addition on top of the above.