linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] rust: regulator: relax a few constraints on Regulator<T>

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Message-Id: <DBPZ8PS2LCF6.20O09TKB7LCD6@nvidia.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2025 14:05:13 +0900
From: "Alexandre Courbot" <acourbot@...dia.com>
To: "Daniel Almeida" <daniel.almeida@...labora.com>, "Liam Girdwood"
 <lgirdwood@...il.com>, "Mark Brown" <broonie@...nel.org>, "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>, "Trevor Gross" <tmgross@...ch.edu>, "Danilo
 Krummrich" <dakr@...nel.org>
Cc: <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] rust: regulator: relax a few constraints on
 Regulator<T>

On Wed Jul 30, 2025 at 2:31 AM JST, Daniel Almeida wrote:
> This series implement two related changes to address a bit of an oversight
> on my end on the initial patch for the Regulator abstraction. Note that
> this is not a fix, as it just relaxes the constraints on the previous code
> as it is safe to do so.
>
> Patch 1 removes some needless &mut self for functions that already provide
> their own locking on the C side.
>
> Patch 2 implements Send and Sync. In particular, there is no reason for
> Regulator<T> not to be Send, and as discussed above, it is naturally Sync.
>
> This is based on linux-next for now, I am waiting for 6.17-rc1 to be out in
> order to rebase.

FWIW,

Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@...dia.com>