linux-kernel - [PATCH net-next v2 0/2] Clean up usage of ffi types

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Message-Id: <20250625-correct-type-cast-v2-0-6f2c29729e69@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2025 05:25:37 -0700
From: Tamir Duberstein <tamird@...il.com>
To: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@...il.com>, 
 Trevor Gross <tmgross@...ch.edu>, 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 <lossin@...nel.org>, Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@...nel.org>, 
 Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>, Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>, 
 "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org, 
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Tamir Duberstein <tamird@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next v2 0/2] Clean up usage of ffi types

Remove qualification of ffi types which are included in the prelude and
change `as` casts to target the proper ffi type alias rather than the
underlying primitive.

Signed-off-by: Tamir Duberstein <tamird@...il.com>
---
Changes in v2:
- Use unqualified types.
- Remove Fixes tag.
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250611-correct-type-cast-v1-1-06c1cf970727@gmail.com

---
Tamir Duberstein (2):
      Use unqualified references to ffi types
      Cast to the proper type

 rust/kernel/net/phy.rs | 34 +++++++++++++---------------------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 0303584766b7bdb6564c7e8f13e0b59b6ef44984
change-id: 20250611-correct-type-cast-1de8876ddfc1

Best regards,
--  
Tamir Duberstein <tamird@...il.com>