Re: [PATCH RFC 1/4] rust: clist: Add abstraction for iterating over C linked lists

Miguel Ojeda
2025-11-04T14:07:28Z

On Tue, Nov 4, 2025 at 2:42 PM Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com> wrote:
>
> What I'm more worried about is that it might be a PITA to write. :/ But
> maybe the core folks have an example for how this could be done cleanly
> and in a reusable way (i.e. we don't want to duplicate the dummy list
> creation code for every example).

Using a shared module/file may be good enough, as long as the `#[path
= ...] mod ...;` or `include!(...)` is hidden with `#`, i.e. as long
as the user does not need to see that to understand the example.

But, yeah, we have already a few places in the tree with fake `mod
bindings` for doctests and things like that.

Cc'ing Guillaume in case there is a better way to do this. The "have
something applied to several parts of docs" has come up before for
references too (the "external references map" I proposed).

In any case, even if the example does not run, it is still way better
to have it at least build instead of completely ignored, because that
means it will not become stale.

Cheers,
Miguel