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Message-ID: <9e0acb35-7d10-4a8e-b5c6-968d1310146b@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 18:37:29 +0200
From: Christian Schrefl <chrisi.schrefl@...il.com>
To: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
 rafael@...nel.org, ojeda@...nel.org, alex.gaynor@...il.com,
 boqun.feng@...il.com, gary@...yguo.net, bjorn3_gh@...tonmail.com,
 benno.lossin@...ton.me, a.hindborg@...nel.org, aliceryhl@...gle.com,
 tmgross@...ch.edu
Cc: rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] misc device: support device drivers

Hi Danilo

On 30.05.25 4:24 PM, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> This patch series adds support for device drivers to the misc device
> abstraction.
> 
> For design details, please see:
>   * patch 5 "rust: miscdevice: properly support device drivers"
>   * patch 6 "rust: miscdevice: expose the parent device as &Device<Bound>"
> 
> This patch series depends on the pin-init series from Benno [1] as well as on
> the misc device series from Christian [2], with UnsafePinned replaced with
> Opaque, as suggested by Alice, since UnsafePinned may still take a while to
> land.

If you want I can send out a new version using `Opaque`.

We could also add a type alias like:

type UnsafePinned<T> = Opaque<T>;

That would then be removed in the `UnsafePinned` patches.
This should make the migration simpler.

Cheers
Christian

> 
> A branch containing this series and its dependencies can be found in [3].
> 
> Thanks to Benno for his great help with pin-init!
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/20250529081027.297648-1-lossin@kernel.org/
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250517-b4-rust_miscdevice_registrationdata-v3-0-cdb33e228d37@gmail.com/
> [3] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dakr/linux.git/log/?h=rust/misc
> 
> Danilo Krummrich (7):
>   rust: types: support fallible PinInit types in Opaque::pin_init
>   rust: revocable: support fallible PinInit types
>   rust: devres: support fallible in-place init for data
>   rust: faux: impl AsRef<Device<Bound>> for Registration
>   rust: miscdevice: properly support device drivers
>   rust: miscdevice: expose the parent device as &Device<Bound>
>   rust: sample: misc: implement device driver sample
> 
>  rust/kernel/devres.rs            |  27 ++-
>  rust/kernel/faux.rs              |   4 +-
>  rust/kernel/miscdevice.rs        | 341 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>  rust/kernel/revocable.rs         |   7 +-
>  rust/kernel/types.rs             |   8 +-
>  samples/rust/Kconfig             |   8 +
>  samples/rust/rust_misc_device.rs |  73 +++++--
>  7 files changed, 350 insertions(+), 118 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> base-commit: d5e34ea41dda1500a4dc163d6e96395fe7adc681


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