Re: [PATCH 05/10] rust: drm: use `core::ffi::CStr` method names

["Danilo Krummrich" <dakr@kernel.org>]

On Wed Jul 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM CEST, Tamir Duberstein wrote:
> Prepare for `core::ffi::CStr` taking the place of `kernel::str::CStr` by
> avoid methods that only exist on the latter.
>
> Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/1075
> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tamir Duberstein <tamird@gmail.com>
> ---
>  rust/kernel/drm/device.rs | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/rust/kernel/drm/device.rs b/rust/kernel/drm/device.rs
> index b7ee3c464a12..998b942b6dd8 100644
> --- a/rust/kernel/drm/device.rs
> +++ b/rust/kernel/drm/device.rs
> @@ -83,8 +83,8 @@ impl<T: drm::Driver> Device<T> {
>          major: T::INFO.major,
>          minor: T::INFO.minor,
>          patchlevel: T::INFO.patchlevel,
> -        name: T::INFO.name.as_char_ptr().cast_mut(),
> -        desc: T::INFO.desc.as_char_ptr().cast_mut(),
> +        name: crate::str::as_char_ptr_in_const_context(T::INFO.name).cast_mut(),
> +        desc: crate::str::as_char_ptr_in_const_context(T::INFO.desc).cast_mut(),

Maybe looks slightly cleaner to import this function, not a blocker though.