Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] rust: pci: make Vendor::from_raw() public

["Onur Özkan" <work@onurozkan.dev>]

On Sat, 20 Jun 2026 10:45:45 +0200
Maurice Hieronymus <mhi@mailbox.org> wrote:

> `Vendor::from_raw()` is currently `pub(super)`, so a Vendor can only be
> obtained through the named constants generated from the
> `PCI_VENDOR_ID_*` defines in `<linux/pci_ids.h>`. A driver therefore
> cannot match a device whose vendor ID has no symbolic name.
> 
> Such devices exist. QEMU's "edu" educational device and the legacy
> qemu/Bochs stdvga both use vendor ID 0x1234, which is not registered in
> `pci_ids.h`. Per the policy stated at the top of that header, IDs are
> only added there when shared between multiple drivers; a single-driver
> ID is expected to be open-coded in the driver instead. C drivers already
> do this -- see `drivers/gpu/drm/tiny/bochs.c`, which matches with a bare
> ".vendor = 0x1234".
> 
> The Rust abstraction has no equivalent escape hatch: there is no public
> way to express an unregistered vendor. Make `Vendor::from_raw()` public
> (and const, so it can be used in the const device-ID tables built by
> `pci_device_table!`) so that drivers can construct a Vendor from a raw
> ID, matching what C drivers can already do.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
> Signed-off-by: Maurice Hieronymus <mhi@mailbox.org>

Reviewed-by: Onur Özkan <work@onurozkan.dev>

> ---
>  rust/kernel/pci/id.rs | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/rust/kernel/pci/id.rs b/rust/kernel/pci/id.rs
> index dbaf301666e7..fe3b0047179b 100644
> --- a/rust/kernel/pci/id.rs
> +++ b/rust/kernel/pci/id.rs
> @@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
>  impl Vendor {
>      /// Create a Vendor from a raw 16-bit vendor ID.
>      #[inline]
> -    pub(super) fn from_raw(vendor_id: u16) -> Self {
> +    pub const fn from_raw(vendor_id: u16) -> Self {
>          Self(vendor_id)
>      }
>  
> 
> -- 
> 2.51.2
>