Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] rust: auxiliary: add auxiliary registration

[Benno Lossin]

On Mon Mar 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM CET, Benoît du Garreau wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 03:23:52 +0100 Danilo Krummrich <dakr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Implement the `auxiliary::Registration` type, which provides an API to
>> +impl Registration {
>> +    /// Create and register a new auxiliary device.
>> +    pub fn new(parent: &device::Device, name: &CStr, id: u32, modname: &CStr) -> Result<Self> {
>> +        let boxed = KBox::new(Opaque::<bindings::auxiliary_device>::zeroed(), GFP_KERNEL)?;
>
> You can use `KBox::init(kernel::init::zeroed(), GFP_KERNEL)` here. It avoids
> the need for the first patch.

We probably should have the zeroed function on the `Zeroable` trait...

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Cheers,
Benno