Re: [PATCH v2 1/8] rust: device: support `dev_printk` on all devices

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

On Fri Jan 23, 2026 at 6:58 PM CET, Gary Guo wrote:
> From: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
>
> Currently, `dev_*` only works on the core `Device`, but not on any other
> bus or class device objects. This causes a pattern of
> `dev_info!(pdev.as_ref())` which is not ideal.
>
> This adds support of using these devices directly with `dev_*` macros, by
> adding `AsRef` call inside the macro. To make sure we can still use just
> `kernel::device::Device`, as `AsRef` implementation is added for it; this
> is typical for types that is designed to use with `AsRef` anyway, for
> example, `str` implements `AsRef<str>` and `Path` implements `AsRef<Path>`.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>

Applied to driver-core-testing, thanks!