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Message-ID: <CANiq72myxAFJbKYaxsuf1PmRQetEct=3yqeJ2sqNkJROT1CQaw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2025 00:30:57 +0200
From: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
To: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>
Cc: 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>, Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@...dia.com>, rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, patches@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rust: prelude: re-export `core::mem::{align,size}_of{,_val}`

On Fri, Aug 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> Rust 1.80.0 added:
>
>     align_of
>     align_of_val
>     size_of
>     size_of_val
>
> from `core::mem` to the prelude [1].
>
> For similar reasons, and to minimize potential confusion when code may
> work in later versions but not in our current minimum, add it to our
> prelude too.
>
> Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/123168 [1]
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/CANiq72kOLYR2A95o0ji2mDmEqOKh9e9_60zZKmgF=vZmsW6DRg@mail.gmail.com/ [2]
> Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>

Applied to `rust-next` -- thanks everyone!

Cheers,
Miguel