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Message-ID: <a327ff52-c37d-4f51-8d19-d6b1cc858d79@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2025 11:49:39 +0200
From: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>
To: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>
Cc: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@...dia.com>,
 Abdiel Janulgue <abdiel.janulgue@...il.com>,
 Daniel Almeida <daniel.almeida@...labora.com>,
 Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>, Andreas Hindborg
 <a.hindborg@...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>, Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>,
 Trevor Gross <tmgross@...ch.edu>,
 "Christian S. Lima" <christiansantoslima21@...il.com>,
 rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/2] rust: transmute: add `as_bytes(_mut)` methods for
 `AsBytes` trait

On 8/1/25 3:24 PM, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> This is the sister patch of [1], providing an `as_bytes` method for
> `AsBytes`, and an `as_bytes_mut` accessor for types also implementing
> `FromBytes`.
> 
> It is going to be used in Nova, but should also be universally useful -
> if anything, it felt a bit strange that `AsBytes` did not provide this
> so far.

Miguel, any concerns taking this through the nova tree?