Re: [PATCH] rust: acpi: replace `core::mem::zeroed` with `pin_init::zeroed`

Benno Lossin
2025-10-20T13:11:46Z

On Mon Oct 20, 2025 at 10:18 AM CEST, Alice Ryhl wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2025 at 11:12:04AM +0800, Siyuan Huang wrote:
>> All types in `bindings` implement `Zeroable` if they can, so use
>> `pin_init::zeroed` instead of relying on `unsafe` code.
>>
>> If this ends up not compiling in the future, something in bindgen or on
>> the C side changed and is most likely incorrect.
>>
>> Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/1189
>> Suggested-by: Benno Lossin <lossin@kernel.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Siyuan Huang <huangsiyuan@kylinos.cn>
>
> We should make this method accessible under kernel::ffi:: since that's
> IMO a better path for it for cases like this. It doesn't really have
> anything to do with pin_init in this use-case.

Yeah, we should do that. I don't have time to do it, so if anyone wants
to go ahead, please do :)

Cheers,
Benno