linux-kernel - [PATCH 00/10] rust: refactor ARef and AlwaysRefCounted imports

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Message-Id: <20251123092438.182251-1-shankari.ak0208@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2025 14:54:28 +0530
From: Shankari Anand <shankari.ak0208@...il.com>
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Subject: [PATCH 00/10] rust: refactor ARef and AlwaysRefCounted imports

This series updates the import sites of `ARef` and
`AlwaysRefCounted` in the Rust kernel code to use `sync::aref` instead
of the previous `types` module.

The refactor to `sync::aref` from `types::` was introduced in the commit: 
commit 07dad44aa9a9 
("rust: kernel: move ARef and AlwaysRefCounted to sync::aref")
link [1]

The goal of this series is to complete the migration of these
types to `sync`, as discussed with Miguel Ojeda [2].
The last commit in this series removes the temporary re-exports
from `types.rs` that were originally added to avoid breaking the
build during the transition.

[1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=07dad44aa9a93b16af19e8609a10b241c352b440
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CANiq72=hSTpAj7w8bvcwoJkivxD_FPKnx9jD6iNvhsENnnXBzg@mail.gmail.com/

Shankari Anand (10):
  drivers: android: binder: Update ARef imports from sync::aref
  drivers: gpu: Update ARef imports from sync::aref
  rust: device: Update ARef and AlwaysRefCounted imports from sync::aref
  rust: drm: Update AlwaysRefCounted imports to use sync::aref
  rust: kernel: Update ARef and AlwaysRefCounted imports to use
    sync::aref
  rust: kernel: Update ARef and AlwaysRefCounted imports to use
    sync::aref
  rust: kernel: Update ARef imports to use sync::aref
  rust: kernel: Update AlwaysRefCounted imports to use sync::aref
  samples: rust: Update ARef imports to use sync::aref
  rust: kernel: remove temporary re-exports of ARef and AlwaysRefCounted

 drivers/android/binder/process.rs      |  2 +-
 drivers/android/binder/thread.rs       |  3 +--
 drivers/gpu/drm/tyr/driver.rs          |  2 +-
 drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp/sequencer.rs |  2 +-
 drivers/gpu/nova-core/vbios.rs         |  2 +-
 rust/kernel/device.rs                  |  4 ++--
 rust/kernel/device/property.rs         |  5 +++--
 rust/kernel/drm/gem/mod.rs             |  2 +-
 rust/kernel/i2c.rs                     | 10 ++++------
 rust/kernel/pwm.rs                     |  3 ++-
 rust/kernel/scatterlist.rs             |  3 ++-
 rust/kernel/types.rs                   |  2 --
 rust/kernel/usb.rs                     |  3 ++-
 samples/rust/rust_debugfs.rs           |  2 +-
 14 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)


base-commit: d724c6f85e80a23ed46b7ebc6e38b527c09d64f5
-- 
2.34.1