[PATCH v2 4/4] rust: types: remove temporary re-exports of ARef and AlwaysRefCounted

Shankari Anand
2026-01-02T22:06:19Z

Remove the temporary re-exports of `ARef` and `AlwaysRefCounted`
from `types.rs` now that all in-tree users have been updated to
import them directly from `sync::aref`.

These re-exports were originally added to avoid breaking the
kernel build during the transition period while call sites were
incrementally migrated. With all users updated, they are no
longer needed.

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>
---
v1 -> v2:

Re-worded the commit title to rust: types:

Link of v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251123092438.182251-11-shankari.ak0208@gmail.com/

---
rust/kernel/types.rs | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/rust/kernel/types.rs b/rust/kernel/types.rs
index 9c5e7dbf1632..4329d3c2c2e5 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/types.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/types.rs
@@ -11,8 +11,6 @@
};
use pin_init::{PinInit, Wrapper, Zeroable};

-pub use crate::sync::aref::{ARef, AlwaysRefCounted};
-
/// Used to transfer ownership to and from foreign (non-Rust) languages.
///
/// Ownership is transferred from Rust to a foreign language by calling [`Self::into_foreign`] and
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