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

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Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2025 07:53:29 +0000
From: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>
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>, Trevor Gross <tmgross@...ch.edu>, 
	Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>, 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 06:11:31PM -0300, 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: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>