Re: [PATCH 2/5] devres: export devres_node_init() and devres_node_add()

[Alice Ryhl]

On Fri, Feb 6, 2026 at 2:16 PM Danilo Krummrich <dakr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri Feb 6, 2026 at 1:34 PM CET, Greg KH wrote:
> > That's fine, because the rust driver core code should also be built into
> > the kernel, not as a module, right?
>
> Yes, but the Rust compiler may still choose to put some of the core code into
> the module.
>
> Especially with generic types and functions the Rust compiler may move some the
> generated code for a certain type instance into the module that instanciates the
> type.
>
> For instance, even though rust/kernel/devres.rs is *always* built-in, we get the
> following error when devres_node_init() is not exported when the users of this
> built-in code are built as module.
>
>         ERROR: modpost: "devres_node_init" [drivers/pwm/pwm_th1520.ko] undefined!
>         ERROR: modpost: "devres_node_init" [drivers/gpu/drm/tyr/tyr.ko] undefined!
>         ERROR: modpost: "devres_node_init" [drivers/gpu/nova-core/nova_core.ko] undefined!
>         ERROR: modpost: "devres_node_init" [samples/rust/rust_dma.ko] undefined!
>         ERROR: modpost: "devres_node_init" [samples/rust/rust_driver_pci.ko] undefined!
>         ERROR: modpost: "devres_node_init" [samples/rust/rust_driver_auxiliary.ko] undefined!
>         make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.modpost:147: Module.symvers] Error 1
>
> However, sprinkling "raw" EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() due to that is not great at all.
> Hence, we could do something like in [1] instead. I don't know if there are
> other options that may be better though.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/DG7UR3WWZB4V.2MYMJJH1VDHH@xxxxxxxxxx/

You can use #[inline(never)] to prevent this.

Alice