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Message-Id: <DBXIA9OM67GN.9LNQ05ZB36GU@nvidia.com>
Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2025 10:29:16 +0900
From: "Alexandre Courbot" <acourbot@...dia.com>
To: "Gary Guo" <gary@...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>,
 "Tamir Duberstein" <tamird@...il.com>, "Alex Mantel"
 <alexmantel93@...lbox.org>
Cc: "Will Deacon" <will@...nel.org>, "Peter Zijlstra"
 <peterz@...radead.org>, "Mark Rutland" <mark.rutland@....com>,
 <rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/5] rust: make `Arc::into_unique_or_drop` associated
 function

On Thu Jul 24, 2025 at 8:32 AM JST, Gary Guo wrote:
> From: Gary Guo <gary@...yguo.net>
>
> Make `Arc::into_unique_or_drop` to become a mere associated function
> instead of a method (i.e. removing the `self` receiver).
>
> It's a general convention for Rust smart pointers to avoid having
> methods defined on them, because if the pointee type has a method of the
> same name, then it is shadowed. This is normally for avoiding semver
> breakage, which isn't an issue for kernel codebase, but it's still
> generally a good practice to follow this rule, so that `ptr.foo()` would
> always be calling a method on the pointee type.
>
> Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin <lossin@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Gary Guo <gary@...yguo.net>

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