Re: [PATCH] rust: miscdevice: change how f_ops vtable is constructed

From: Alice Ryhl
Date: Tue Feb 25 2025 - 05:14:45 EST


On Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 02:22:32PM +0000, Alice Ryhl wrote:
> > I was helping someone with writing a new Rust abstraction, and we were
> > using the miscdevice abstraction as an example. While doing this, it
> > became clear to me that the way I implemented the f_ops vtable is
> > confusing to new Rust users, and that the approach used by the block
> > abstractions is less confusing.
> >
> > Thus, update the miscdevice abstractions to use the same approach as
> > rust/kernel/block/mq/operations.rs.
> >
> > Sorry about the large diff. This changes the indentation of a large
> > amount of code.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > rust/kernel/miscdevice.rs | 295 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
> > 1 file changed, 141 insertions(+), 154 deletions(-)
>
> This doesn't apply against a clean 6.14-rc2 tree, what is is made
> against?

I will rebase.

Are there any other miscdevice commits that have landed this cycle
that it might conflict with? If so, I can base it on your branch to
avoid such conflicts.

Alice