Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] rust: devres: implement register_release()

[Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2025 at 04:41:55PM +0200, Benno Lossin wrote:
> On Thu Jun 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM CEST, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 26, 2025 at 01:15:34PM +0200, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jun 26, 2025 at 12:36:23PM +0200, Benno Lossin wrote:
> >> > Or, we could change `Release` to be:
> >> > 
> >> >     pub trait Release {
> >> >         type Ptr: ForeignOwnable;
> >> > 
> >> >         fn release(this: Self::Ptr);
> >> >     }
> >> > 
> >> > and then `register_release` is:
> >> > 
> >> >     pub fn register_release<T: Release>(dev: &Device<Bound>, data: T::Ptr) -> Result
> >> > 
> >> > This way, one can store a `Box<T>` and get access to the `T` at the end.
> >> 
> >> I think this was also the case before? Well, it was P::Borrowed instead.
> >> 
> >> > Or if they store the value in an `Arc<T>`, they have the option to clone
> >> > it and give it to somewhere else.
> >> 
> >> Anyways, I really like this proposal of implementing the Release trait.
> >
> > One downside seems to be that the compiler cannot infer T anymore with this
> > function signature.
> 
> Yeah... That's a bit annoying.
> 
> We might be able to add an associated type to `ForeignOwnable` like
> `Target` or `Inner` or whatever.

I think we already have `PointedTo` [1]? But I remember that I've seen a patch
to remove it again [2].

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/rust/kernel/types.rs#n32
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250612-pointed-to-v3-1-b009006d86a1@kernel.org/

> Then we could do:
> 
>     pub fn register_release<P>(dev: &Device<Bound>, data: P) -> Result
>     where
>         P: ForeignOwnable,
>         P::Inner: Release<Ptr = P>,
> 
> ---
> Cheers,
> Benno