Re: [PATCH 0/8] rust: pin-init: various cleanups to prepare for self-reference

[Benno Lossin]

On 06 Oct 2026 17:29:30 +0200, Gary Guo <gary@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Pin-init self reference is going to be a big feature, touching various
> places in pin_data and init macros. Do some various cleanups to tidy up the
> macro codebase, so the feature can land without much refactoring.
> 
> Details in commits.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gary Guo <gary@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Gary Guo (8):
>       rust: pin-init: internal: init: forget guards in reverse order
>       rust: pin-init: internal: init: set span location of guards
>       rust: pin-init: internal: add utility to handle generics merging
>       rust: pin-init: internal: add utility for extract a single attribute
>       rust: pin-init: internal: pin_data: move projection struct into `const _: ()` block
>       rust: pin-init: internal: pin_data: extract `#[cfg]` processing to its own function
>       rust: pin-init: internal: pin_data: rename `'__pin` lifetime to `'__this`
>       rust: pin-init: internal: pin_data: parse into `StructInfo` before generating
> 
>  rust/pin-init/internal/src/init.rs     |  19 +--
>  rust/pin-init/internal/src/lib.rs      |   3 +-
>  rust/pin-init/internal/src/pin_data.rs | 217 +++++++++++++++++++++------------
>  rust/pin-init/internal/src/util.rs     | 189 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  4 files changed, 341 insertions(+), 87 deletions(-)

these are good improvements. looking forward to seeing the self-ref here!

Acked-by: Benno Lossin <lossin@xxxxxxxxxx>

best,
Benno

> ---
> base-commit: 499b8f8a5d0401a6ab83b346a307f923640a024a
> change-id: 20261006-dev-selfref-dep-df01df1d05bf
> 
> Best regards,
> --  
> Gary Guo <gary@xxxxxxxxxxx>