Re: [PATCH 08/12] rust: pin-init: rewrite the initializer macros using `syn`

["Benno Lossin" <lossin@kernel.org>]

On Sat Jan 10, 2026 at 8:20 PM CET, Gary Guo wrote:
> On Sat Jan 10, 2026 at 6:14 PM GMT, Benno Lossin wrote:
>> On Fri Jan 9, 2026 at 2:45 PM CET, Gary Guo wrote:
>>> On Thu Jan 8, 2026 at 1:50 PM GMT, Benno Lossin wrote:
>>>> +                quote! {
>>>> +                    {
>>>> +                        #value_prep
>>>> +                        // SAFETY: TODO
>>>> +                        unsafe { #write(::core::ptr::addr_of_mut!((*#slot).#ident), #value_ident) };
>>>
>>> This should be `&raw mut` now?
>>
>> Yes, but that involves adding workarounds for 1.81 and earlier. I'll
>> leave it for a future series.
>
> You can just enable `raw_ref_op` feature globally. We've already enabled it for
> the kernel crate.

It must be possible to compile the pin-init crate using a stable
compiler. Enabling an already stable feature still causes a compiler
error (last time I checked). So we unfortunately can't enable it without
workarounds.

Cheers,
Benno