linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v10 1/5] rust: types: Add Ownable/Owned types

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Message-Id: <DAQI5DZ6HHJR.DOP0AQVQH3ZW@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2025 14:18:15 +0200
From: "Benno Lossin" <lossin@...nel.org>
To: "Andreas Hindborg" <a.hindborg@...nel.org>
Cc: "Oliver Mangold" <oliver.mangold@...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>, "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 v10 1/5] rust: types: Add Ownable/Owned types

On Thu Jun 19, 2025 at 11:33 AM CEST, Andreas Hindborg wrote:
> "Benno Lossin" <lossin@...nel.org> writes:
>> On Wed Jun 18, 2025 at 11:34 AM CEST, Oliver Mangold wrote:
>>> On 250514 1132, Benno Lossin wrote:
>>>> On Fri May 2, 2025 at 11:02 AM CEST, Oliver Mangold wrote:
>>>> > +pub unsafe trait OwnableMut: Ownable {}
>>>>
>>>> I don't like the name, but at the same time I also have no good
>>>> suggestion :( I'll think some more about it.
>>>
>>> There was already a bit of discussion about it. I had my own implementation of this
>>> where I used the names `UniqueRefCounted` and `UniqueRef`, but after discovering
>>> this version from Asahi Lina, I took it as it was, keeping the name.
>>>
>>> No one else came up with different suggestions so far, so maybe we should just leave it
>>> at `Owned`/`Ownable`?
>>
>> I'm just hung up on the `Mut` part... Haven't come up with a good
>> replacement yet.
>
> What do you dislike about the xxxxMut pattern?

Uh, I have re-read the docs & don't remember what originally I didn't
like about the name, so let's keep it :)

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Cheers,
Benno