Re: [PATCH 0/2] rust: usb: add initial USB abstractions
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Sep 23 2025 - 08:05:09 EST
On Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 03:18:04PM -0300, Daniel Almeida wrote:
> This adds initial support for USB Rust drivers, not only because I see a
> widespread use of module_usb_driver() in media (which is a subsystem I
> aim to support) but also because I want to learn about USB in general
> and this is a nice opportunity to start doing so.
>
> I tried to keep things as consistent with pci.rs and platform.rs as
> possible and tested it by manually binding a device (i.e.: my Logitech
> mouse) to the sample driver via:
>
> /sys/bus/usb/drivers/rust_driver_usb/new_id
>
> This initial patch is therefore comprised of the same patterns that are
> known to work for pci and platform already.
>
> Physically disconnecting the device also worked, i.e.: nothing bad
> showed up in dmesg.
>
> Note that I did not touch MAINTAINERS at all. The objective is to
> kickstart the discussion of what to do there here in v1.
I tried to apply these, but I get the following build error when adding
to the char-misc-testing tree:
ld.lld: error: undefined symbol: usb_get_intf
>>> referenced by kernel.1a949e63ee2acc6a-cgu.0
>>> rust/kernel.o:(<kernel::usb::Interface as kernel::sync::aref::AlwaysRefCounted>::inc_ref) in archive vmlinux.a
>>> referenced by kernel.1a949e63ee2acc6a-cgu.0
>>> rust/kernel.o:(<kernel::sync::aref::ARef<kernel::usb::Interface> as core::convert::From<&kernel::usb::Interface<kernel::device::CoreInternal>>>::from) in archive vmlinux.a
ld.lld: error: undefined symbol: usb_put_intf
>>> referenced by kernel.1a949e63ee2acc6a-cgu.0
>>> rust/kernel.o:(<kernel::usb::Interface as kernel::sync::aref::AlwaysRefCounted>::dec_ref) in archive vmlinux.a
ld.lld: error: undefined symbol: usb_get_dev
>>> referenced by kernel.1a949e63ee2acc6a-cgu.0
>>> rust/kernel.o:(<kernel::usb::Device as kernel::sync::aref::AlwaysRefCounted>::inc_ref) in archive vmlinux.a
>>> referenced by kernel.1a949e63ee2acc6a-cgu.0
>>> rust/kernel.o:(<kernel::sync::aref::ARef<kernel::usb::Device> as core::convert::From<&kernel::usb::Device<kernel::device::CoreInternal>>>::from) in archive vmlinux.a
ld.lld: error: undefined symbol: usb_put_dev
>>> referenced by kernel.1a949e63ee2acc6a-cgu.0
>>> rust/kernel.o:(<kernel::usb::Device as kernel::sync::aref::AlwaysRefCounted>::dec_ref) in archive vmlinux.a
Any hints?
thanks,
greg k-h