Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] rust: error: Add missing wrappers to convert to/from kernel error codes

[Miguel Ojeda]

On Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 11:48 AM Asahi Lina <lina@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone!
>
> This series is part of the set of dependencies for the drm/asahi
> Apple M1/M2 GPU driver.
>
> It adds a bunch of missing wrappers in kernel::error, which are useful
> to convert to/from kernel error codes. Since these will be used by many
> abstractions coming up soon, I think it makes sense to merge them as
> soon as possible instead of bundling them with the first user. Hence,
> they have allow() tags to silence dead code warnings. These can be
> removed as soon as the first user is in the kernel crate.
>
> Getting this in first allows the subsequent abstractions to be merged in
> any order, so we don't have to worry about piecewise rebasing and fixing
> conflicts in the Error wrappers. See [1] for a complete tree with the DRM
> abstractions and all other miscellaneous work-in-progress prerequisites
> rebased on top of mainline.
>
> Most of these have been extracted from the rust-for-linux/rust branch,
> with author attribution to the first/primary author and Co-developed-by:
> for everyone else who touched the code.
>
> Attribution changes:
> - One of the patches had Miguel's old email in the tags, updated that per
>   his request.
> - Wedson's email changed from @google.com to @gmail.com (I understand
>   this is the current one).
>
> Sven: There is one patch from you in this series, do you want to send it
> yourself directly? I understand Wedson and Miguel are okay with me
> sending stuff on their behalf.
>
> [1] https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/pull/969/commits

Added (and then removed in later commits) two `#[allow(dead_code)]`s
as needed to make it compile.

Applied to `rust-next`. Thanks!

Cheers,
Miguel