linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] rust: transmute: Add methods for FromBytes trait

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Message-ID: <CANiq72=GWwhMEfwBgUFpEUFoT2Wga2=uhH6Nw7fotQYjz2G=EA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 12:50:17 +0200
From: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
To: "Christian S. Lima" <christiansantoslima21@...il.com>
Cc: rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	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>, 
	Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>, ~lkcamp/patches@...ts.sr.ht, richard120310@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rust: transmute: Add methods for FromBytes trait

On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 1:40 AM Christian S. Lima
<christiansantoslima21@...il.com> wrote:
>
> Methods receive a slice and perform size check to add a valid way to make
> conversion safe. An Option is used, in error case just return `None`.
>
> The conversion between slices `[T]` is separated from others, because I
> couldn't implement it in the same way as the other conversions.
>
> Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/1119
> Signed-off-by: Christian S. Lima <christiansantoslima21@...il.com>

Hmm... We got two emails, both with the essentially the same content,
1 second apart, the second one without the v6 in the title.

The one I am replying to is what seems to be the duplicate one.

Cheers,
Miguel