linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] rust: regulator: remove Regulator<Dynamic>

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Message-Id: <DCFSUIIRQD8M.35F6RIYV86514@kernel.org>
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2025 15:33:52 +0200
From: "Danilo Krummrich" <dakr@...nel.org>
To: "Daniel Almeida" <daniel.almeida@...labora.com>
Cc: "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>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
 <rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] rust: regulator: remove Regulator<Dynamic>

On Fri Aug 29, 2025 at 11:11 PM CEST, Daniel Almeida wrote:
> After some experimenting and further discussion, it is starting to look
> like Regulator<Dynamic> might be a footgun. It turns out that one can
> get the same behavior by correctly using just Regulator<Enabled> and
> Regulator<Disabled>, so there is no need to directly expose the manual
> refcounting ability of Regulator<Dynamic> to clients.
>
> Remove it while we do not have any other users.
>
> Suggested-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Almeida <daniel.almeida@...labora.com>

Reviewed-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>