Re: [PATCH 06/10] rust: kernel: Update ARef and AlwaysRefCounted imports to use sync::aref

Uwe Kleine-König
2025-11-24T16:10:53Z

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Hello,

I suggest $Subject ~= s/kernel/pwm/.

On Sun, Nov 23, 2025 at 02:54:34PM +0530, Shankari Anand wrote:
> Update call sites in `pwm.rs` to import `ARef`
> and `AlwaysRefCounted` from `sync::aref`
> instead of `types`.
>
> This aligns with the ongoing effort to move `ARef` and
> `AlwaysRefCounted` to sync.
>
> Suggested-by: Benno Lossin <lossin@kernel.org>
> Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/1173
> Signed-off-by: Shankari Anand <shankari.ak0208@gmail.com>
> ---
> rust/kernel/pwm.rs | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/rust/kernel/pwm.rs b/rust/kernel/pwm.rs
> index cb00f8a8765c..1605d13d5d64 100644
> --- a/rust/kernel/pwm.rs
> +++ b/rust/kernel/pwm.rs
> @@ -13,7 +13,8 @@
> devres,
> error::{self, to_result},
> prelude::*,
> - types::{ARef, AlwaysRefCounted, Opaque}, //
> + sync::aref::{ARef, AlwaysRefCounted},
> + types::Opaque, //
> };
> use core::{marker::PhantomData, ptr::NonNull};

having no clue about Rust:

Can this patch be applied independent of the others via the pwm tree? If
I understand correctly it's only patch #10 that depends on the previous
patches, right?

Is there already a merge plan for this series?

Best regards
Uwe

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