Re: [PATCH v3 09/15] rust: pin-init: rewrite the initializer macros using `syn`

[Benno Lossin]

On Thu Jan 15, 2026 at 10:45 PM CET, Tamir Duberstein wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 1:20 PM Benno Lossin <lossin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Rewrite the initializer macros `[pin_]init!` using `syn`. No functional
>> changes intended aside from improved error messages on syntactic and
>> semantical errors. For example if one forgets to use `<-` with an
>> initializer (and instead uses `:`):
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> Tested-by: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Benno Lossin <lossin@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> -#[cfg(kernel)]
>> -pub use ::macros::paste;
>> -#[cfg(not(kernel))]
>> -pub use ::paste::paste;
>
> Now that `cfg(kernel)` is gone, can we also remove it from `rust/Makefile`
> and `scripts/generate_rust_analyzer.py`? That is already done for
> pin-init in patch 3 of this series:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260114181934.1782470-4-lossin@xxxxxxxxxx/.

I'm still using `cfg(kernel)` in `src/lib.rs` for linking to the std
Box and Arc types.

Also I don't want to have to reintroduce all that infrastructure when I
inevitably have to add new kernel workarounds.

Cheers,
Benno