Re: [PATCH v4 4/7] rust: time: Add wrapper for fsleep function

From: FUJITA Tomonori
Date: Thu Oct 31 2024 - 04:31:34 EST


On Tue, 29 Oct 2024 08:55:50 +0100
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 29 2024 at 08:30, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
>> On Sun, 27 Oct 2024 21:38:41 -0700
>> Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> That also works for me, but an immediate question is: do we put
>>> #[must_use] on `fsleep()` to enforce the use of the return value? If
>>> yes, then the normal users would need to explicitly ignore the return
>>> value:
>>>
>>> let _ = fsleep(1sec);
>>>
>>> The "let _ =" would be a bit annoying for every user that just uses a
>>> constant duration.
>>
>> Yeah, but I don't think that we have enough of an excuse here to break
>> the rule "Do not crash the kernel".
>>
>> Another possible option is to convert an invalid argument to a safe
>> value (e.g., the maximum), possibly with WARN_ON_ONCE().
>
> That makes sense.

Thanks! I'll do the conversion in the next version.