linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] rust: miscdevice: update ARef import to sync::aref

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Message-ID: <aKRlqA_Xa3S4_P1a@google.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2025 11:53:12 +0000
From: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>
To: Shankari Anand <shankari.ak0208@...il.com>, 
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, 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>, Trevor Gross <tmgross@...ch.edu>, 
	Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>, rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rust: miscdevice: update ARef import to sync::aref

On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 06:58:06PM +0530, Shankari Anand wrote:
> Update the import of `ARef` in misc_device sample to use
> `sync::aref` instead of `types`.
> 
> This is part of the ongoing effort to move `ARef` and
> `AlwaysRefCounted` to the `sync` module for better modularity
> and type organization.
> 
> Suggested-by: Benno Lossin <lossin@...nel.org>
> Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/1173
> Signed-off-by: Shankari Anand <shankari.ak0208@...il.com>

Greg, I believe this should go through miscdevice. It's not going
through a shared tree.

Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>