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From: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
To: I Hsin Cheng <richard120310@gmail.com>
Cc: ojeda@kernel.org, alex.gaynor@gmail.com, boqun.feng@gmail.com,
	 gary@garyguo.net, bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com,
	benno.lossin@proton.me,  a.hindborg@kernel.org,
	tmgross@umich.edu, rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org,
	 linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, skhan@linuxfoundation.org,
	 linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linux.dev, jserv@ccns.ncku.edu.tw
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] rust: list: Implement normal initializer for ListLinks
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 09:44:41 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Z860iWGtaEFMD2hj@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250310073040.423383-2-richard120310@gmail.com>

On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 03:30:39PM +0800, I Hsin Cheng wrote:
> Currently ListLinks only supports to create an initializer through
> "new()", which will need further initialization because the return type
> of "new()" is "impl Pininit<Self>". Not even "ListLinksSlefPtr" use the
> method to create a new instance of "ListLinks".
> 
> Implement a normal method to create a new instance of type "ListLinks".
> This may be redundant as long as there exist a convenient and proper way
> to deal with "ListLinks::new()".
> 
> For now it's introduce for the simplicity of examples in the following
> patches.
> 
> Signed-off-by: I Hsin Cheng <richard120310@gmail.com>

This change is not good. The ListLinks type has an invariant about when
the pointers are null. The existing constructor argues that the
invariant is satisfied because pin-init initializers can't be used in an
existing Arc. Why is that satisfied here?

Alice

  reply	other threads:[~2025-03-10  9:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-03-10  7:30 [RFC PATCH 0/2] rust: list: Add examples for linked list I Hsin Cheng
2025-03-10  7:30 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] rust: list: Implement normal initializer for ListLinks I Hsin Cheng
2025-03-10  9:44   ` Alice Ryhl [this message]
2025-03-10 11:14     ` I Hsin Cheng
2025-03-10 11:44       ` Alice Ryhl
2025-03-10  7:30 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] rust: list: Add examples for linked list I Hsin Cheng

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