Re: [PATCH 0/7] misc device: support device drivers

[Christian Schrefl <chrisi.schrefl@gmail.com>]

On 30.05.25 6:37 PM, Christian Schrefl wrote:
> Hi Danilo
> 
> On 30.05.25 4:24 PM, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
>> This patch series adds support for device drivers to the misc device
>> abstraction.
>>
>> For design details, please see:
>>   * patch 5 "rust: miscdevice: properly support device drivers"
>>   * patch 6 "rust: miscdevice: expose the parent device as &Device<Bound>"
>>
>> This patch series depends on the pin-init series from Benno [1] as well as on
>> the misc device series from Christian [2], with UnsafePinned replaced with
>> Opaque, as suggested by Alice, since UnsafePinned may still take a while to
>> land.
> 
> If you want I can send out a new version using `Opaque`.
> 
> We could also add a type alias like:
> 
> type UnsafePinned<T> = Opaque<T>;

I forgot that Opaque doesn't drop, this would not be quite as simple,
but with a newtype with a `Drop` impl it should be possible.

> 
> That would then be removed in the `UnsafePinned` patches.
> This should make the migration simpler.
> 
> Cheers
> Christian
> 
>>
>> A branch containing this series and its dependencies can be found in [3].
>>
>> Thanks to Benno for his great help with pin-init!
>>
>> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/20250529081027.297648-1-lossin@kernel.org/
>> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250517-b4-rust_miscdevice_registrationdata-v3-0-cdb33e228d37@gmail.com/
>> [3] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dakr/linux.git/log/?h=rust/misc
>>
>> Danilo Krummrich (7):
>>   rust: types: support fallible PinInit types in Opaque::pin_init
>>   rust: revocable: support fallible PinInit types
>>   rust: devres: support fallible in-place init for data
>>   rust: faux: impl AsRef<Device<Bound>> for Registration
>>   rust: miscdevice: properly support device drivers
>>   rust: miscdevice: expose the parent device as &Device<Bound>
>>   rust: sample: misc: implement device driver sample
>>
>>  rust/kernel/devres.rs            |  27 ++-
>>  rust/kernel/faux.rs              |   4 +-
>>  rust/kernel/miscdevice.rs        | 341 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>>  rust/kernel/revocable.rs         |   7 +-
>>  rust/kernel/types.rs             |   8 +-
>>  samples/rust/Kconfig             |   8 +
>>  samples/rust/rust_misc_device.rs |  73 +++++--
>>  7 files changed, 350 insertions(+), 118 deletions(-)
>>
>>
>> base-commit: d5e34ea41dda1500a4dc163d6e96395fe7adc681
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