linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v13 2/5] rust: support formatting of foreign types

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Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2025 14:15:26 +0200
From: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
To: Tamir Duberstein <tamird@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v13 2/5] rust: support formatting of foreign types

On Fri, Jul 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM Tamir Duberstein <tamird@...il.com> wrote:
>
> That would probably work. We will probably see regressions because we
> can't just replace `core::fmt` imports with `kernel::fmt`, so new code
> may appear that uses the former.

That is fine -- it happens all the time with this sort of approach.

Cheers,
Miguel