Re: [PATCH v10 2/5] rust: io: separate generic I/O helpers from MMIO implementation

From: Alice Ryhl

Date: Tue Jan 20 2026 - 06:26:07 EST


On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 11:12:18AM +0100, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> On Tue Jan 20, 2026 at 9:04 AM CET, Alice Ryhl wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 10:22:44PM +0200, Zhi Wang wrote:
> > Overall looks good to me. Some comments below:
> >
> > I still think it would make sense to have `IoCapable<T>: IoTryCapable<T>`,
> > but it's not a big deal.
>
> I think with this approach it's not necessary to have this requirement. In
> practice, most impls will have both, but I think it's a good thing that we don't
> have to have an impl even if not used by any driver, i.e. it helps avoiding dead
> code.
>
> >> + /// Infallible 64-bit read with compile-time bounds check.
> >> + #[cfg(CONFIG_64BIT)]
> >> + fn read64(&self, offset: usize) -> u64
> >> + #[cfg(CONFIG_64BIT)]
> >> + fn try_read64(&self, offset: usize) -> Result<u64>
> >
> > These don't really need cfg(CONFIG_64BIT). You can place that cfg on
> > impl blocks of IoCapable<u64>.
>
> If you agree with the above, I can fix this up when applying the series.

Ok with me.

Alice