linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 2/5] rust: Rename AlwaysRefCounted to RefCounted

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Message-ID: <87ikndd8vp.fsf@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2025 10:41:46 +0200
From: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@...nel.org>
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>,  "Alice Ryhl" <aliceryhl@...gle.com>,
  "Trevor Gross" <tmgross@...ch.edu>,  "Asahi Lina" <lina@...hilina.net>,
  <rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org>,  <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 2/5] rust: Rename AlwaysRefCounted to RefCounted

"Oliver Mangold" <oliver.mangold@...me> writes:

> AlwaysRefCounted will become a marker trait to indicate that it is allowed
> to obtain an ARef from a `&`, which cannot be allowed for types which are
> also Ownable.

I would suggest using `ARef<T>` and `&T` in the commit message.

v6.15-rc1 includes some more uses of `AlwaysRefCounted` that need to be
converted. Otherwise looks good to me.


Best regards,
Andreas Hindborg