linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] rust: usb: add basic USB abstractions

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Message-ID: <2025092303-squeeze-reformed-11ee@gregkh>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2025 16:49:24 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.com>,
	Daniel Almeida <daniel.almeida@...labora.com>,
	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,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] rust: usb: add basic USB abstractions

On Tue, Sep 23, 2025 at 04:42:11PM +0200, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> On 9/23/25 4:37 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > Yes, you are right, it can be gotten that way.  But I can't wait to see
> > how you wrap that C macro in rust :)
> 
> We can either create a Rust helper function for it, or just re-implement it; in
> the end it boils down to just a container_of() on the parent device.

Yes, and it preserves the "const" of the pointer going into the function
call, can we do that in rust as well?