Re: merge problems with char-misc-next and Linus's branch right now

[Alvin Sun <alvin.sun@linux.dev>]

On 8/25/26 17:05, Greg KH wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to push out a pull request for char-misc-next right now, and
> am having merge issues that I need/want to fix up (or at least provide a
> hint as to fix up.)
>
> I'm currently stuck at the following build error:
>
>    RUSTC     drivers/android/binder/rust_binder_main.o
> error[E0425]: cannot find value `THIS_MODULE` in the crate root
>    --> drivers/android/binder/netlink.rs:16:13
>     |
> 16 |     &crate::THIS_MODULE,
>     |             ^^^^^^^^^^^
>     |
>    ::: rust/kernel/module.rs:52:1
>     |
> 52 | pub const fn this_module<M: ModuleMetadata>() -> &'static ThisModule {
>     | -------------------------------------------------------------------- similarly named function `this_module` defined here
>     |
> help: a function with a similar name exists
>     |
> 16 -     &crate::THIS_MODULE,
> 16 +     &crate::this_module,
>     |
>
> error: aborting due to 1 previous error
>
>
> I wasn't paying attention to the recent THIS_MODULE changes, and can't
> seem to figure out how to fix up the netlink.rs file to build with the
> recent changes.
>
> Any hints?

Hi Greg,

Gary has already posted a fix:
https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/20260813163951.1102583-1-gary@kernel.org/

Best regards,
Alvin

>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>