linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] rust: pin_init_internal: fix rust-analyzer `mod quote`

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Message-Id: <DF57IWUPXAHM.27OHGD93IW5W@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2025 02:32:36 +0100
From: "Benno Lossin" <lossin@...nel.org>
To: "Tamir Duberstein" <tamird@...il.com>, "Benno Lossin"
 <benno.lossin@...ton.me>
Cc: "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>, "Andreas Hindborg" <a.hindborg@...nel.org>,
 "Alice Ryhl" <aliceryhl@...gle.com>, "Trevor Gross" <tmgross@...ch.edu>,
 "Danilo Krummrich" <dakr@...nel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
 <rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rust: pin_init_internal: fix rust-analyzer `mod quote`

On Mon Dec 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM CET, Tamir Duberstein wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM Tamir Duberstein <tamird@...il.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 10:10 AM Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@...ton.me> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Thu Mar 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM CET, Tamir Duberstein wrote:
>> > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 8:16 AM Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@...ton.me> wrote:
>> > >> I'd rather not have this change, since this will introduce a dangling
>> > >> symlink upstream [1].
>> > >>
>> > >> [1]: https://github.com/rust-for-Linux/pin-init
>> > >
>> > > I agree it's aesthetically displeasing. I'm not aware of any
>> > > alternative that fixes the development workflow of this crate in the
>> > > kernel.
>> >
>> > I don't think it's too bad, and this code is going away soon-ish
>> > anyways.
>>
>> What would Andreas say? :)
>>
>> I don't think the going away soon argument is relevant in this case -
>> the same applies to the dangling symlink.
>
> 9 months later, this code is still here. What would make it go away?

The pin-init `syn` changes will land this cycle, which removes this
code.

Cheers,
Benno