[PATCH 03/10] rust: device: Update ARef and AlwaysRefCounted imports from sync::aref

Shankari Anand
2025-11-23T09:26:14Z

Update call sites 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/device.rs | 4 ++--
rust/kernel/device/property.rs | 5 +++--
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/rust/kernel/device.rs b/rust/kernel/device.rs
index c79be2e2bfe3..21bde8d95185 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/device.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/device.rs
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@
/// `bindings::device::release` is valid to be called from any thread, hence `ARef<Device>` can be
/// dropped from any thread.
///
-/// [`AlwaysRefCounted`]: kernel::types::AlwaysRefCounted
+/// [`AlwaysRefCounted`]: kernel::sync::aref::AlwaysRefCounted
/// [`impl_device_context_deref`]: kernel::impl_device_context_deref
/// [`pci::Device`]: kernel::pci::Device
/// [`platform::Device`]: kernel::platform::Device
@@ -540,7 +540,7 @@ pub trait DeviceContext: private::Sealed {}
/// [`Device<Normal>`]. It is the only [`DeviceContext`] for which it is valid to implement
/// [`AlwaysRefCounted`] for.
///
-/// [`AlwaysRefCounted`]: kernel::types::AlwaysRefCounted
+/// [`AlwaysRefCounted`]: kernel::sync::aref::AlwaysRefCounted
pub struct Normal;

/// The [`Core`] context is the context of a bus specific device when it appears as argument of
diff --git a/rust/kernel/device/property.rs b/rust/kernel/device/property.rs
index 3a332a8c53a9..413221817ef1 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/device/property.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/device/property.rs
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@
fmt,
prelude::*,
str::{CStr, CString},
- types::{ARef, Opaque},
+ sync::aref::ARef,
+ types::Opaque,
};

/// A reference-counted fwnode_handle.
@@ -359,7 +360,7 @@ fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
}

// SAFETY: Instances of `FwNode` are always reference-counted.
-unsafe impl crate::types::AlwaysRefCounted for FwNode {
+unsafe impl crate::sync::aref::AlwaysRefCounted for FwNode {
fn inc_ref(&self) {
// SAFETY: The existence of a shared reference guarantees that the
// refcount is non-zero.
--
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