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

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2026 at 06:00:37PM +0800, Alvin Sun wrote:
> 
> 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/

Thank you, I had missed that.

greg k-h