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Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 21:25:13 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] misc device: support device drivers
From: "Benno Lossin" <lossin@kernel.org>
To: "Danilo Krummrich" <dakr@kernel.org>, <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
 <rafael@kernel.org>, <ojeda@kernel.org>, <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>,
 <boqun.feng@gmail.com>, <gary@garyguo.net>, <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com>,
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On Fri May 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM CEST, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> This patch series adds support for device drivers to the misc device
> abstraction.
>
> For design details, please see:
>   * patch 5 "rust: miscdevice: properly support device drivers"
>   * patch 6 "rust: miscdevice: expose the parent device as &Device<Bound>=
"
>
> This patch series depends on the pin-init series from Benno [1] as well a=
s on
> the misc device series from Christian [2], with UnsafePinned replaced wit=
h
> Opaque, as suggested by Alice, since UnsafePinned may still take a while =
to
> land.
>
> A branch containing this series and its dependencies can be found in [3].
>
> Thanks to Benno for his great help with pin-init!

No problem! I also found it very useful to get some more uses for
pin-init. This way future contributors will benefit from the new
features :)

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Cheers,
Benno