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Message-Id: <45626ED1-9684-4FA0-8AB6-FFBB0D2BA2FE@collabora.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2026 10:45:12 -0300
From: Daniel Almeida <daniel.almeida@...labora.com>
To: Onur Özkan <work@...rozkan.dev>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 1/7] rust: add C wrappers for ww_mutex inline
 functions

Hi Onur,

Sorry for the delay, I’m finally getting back to this series.


> On 3 Jan 2026, at 04:35, Onur Özkan <work@...rozkan.dev> wrote:
> 
> Some of the kernel's `ww_mutex` functions are implemented as
> `static inline`, so they are inaccessible from Rust as bindgen
> can't generate code on them. This patch provides C function wrappers
> around these inline implementations, so bindgen can see them and
> generate the corresponding Rust code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Onur Özkan <work@...rozkan.dev>

My comment remains the same as v8 [0]: did you forget to pick up tags? There’s an r-b here in v7 [1].

Or perhaps I’m missing something?

— Daniel

[0]: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/2F879792-3C12-4C8F-8EF1-122F44EF2B19@collabora.com/
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/34A2E775-A47E-4D4E-A292-E12489F07987@collabora.com/