linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] rust: types: remove temporary re-exports of ARef and AlwaysRefCounted

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Message-Id: <20260107144739.5847-1-shankari.ak0208@gmail.com>
Date: Wed,  7 Jan 2026 20:17:39 +0530
From: Shankari Anand <shankari.ak0208@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] rust: types: remove temporary re-exports of ARef and AlwaysRefCounted

On Wed, Jan 07, 2026 at 08:09:35PM +0530, Shankari Anand wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello Miguel and all,
> 
> > >> error[E0432]: unresolved import `crate::types::ARef`
> >    --> rust/kernel/scatterlist.rs:41:13
> >    |
> >    41 |     types::{ARef, Opaque},
> >    |             ^^^^ no `ARef` in `types`
> >    |
> >    = help: consider importing this struct instead:
> >    crate::sync::aref::ARef
> > --
> 
> This change has already been made in [1]. Probably it has showed up on the linux-next
> recently which has caused the kernel bot to detect the error.
> 
> 
> > >> error[E0405]: cannot find trait `AlwaysRefCounted` in module `crate::types`
> >    --> rust/kernel/device/property.rs:362:27
> >    |
> >    362 | unsafe impl crate::types::AlwaysRefCounted for FwNode {
> >    |                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ not found in `crate::types`
> >    |
> >    help: consider importing this trait
> >    |
> >    7   + use crate::sync::aref::AlwaysRefCounted;
> >    |
> >    help: if you import `AlwaysRefCounted`, refer to it directly
> >    |
> >    362 - unsafe impl crate::types::AlwaysRefCounted for FwNode {
> >    362 + unsafe impl AlwaysRefCounted for FwNode {
> >    |
> > 
> > --
> 
> I haven't raised a patch for this file change I suppose. Should I do it in the same patch v3
> or put up a separate patch and reference it there?
>  
> > 0-DAY CI Kernel Test Service
> > https://github.com/intel/lkp-tests/wiki
> 
> 
> Please let me know which one would be appropriate and accordingly I'll send the revised patch.
> I'll try to complete this refactoring soon. Sincere apologies that this has been going since quite a while now.
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> 
> Regards,
> Shankari


Apologies, I forgot to link [1]


[1] - https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=2da67beda68776842fd0a26f2374e42a5e9b12c8