Re: [PATCH 00/10] rust: refactor ARef and AlwaysRefCounted imports

[Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>]

On Sun, Nov 23, 2025 at 02:54:28PM +0530, Shankari Anand wrote:
> This series updates the import sites of `ARef` and
> `AlwaysRefCounted` in the Rust kernel code to use `sync::aref` instead
> of the previous `types` module.
> 
> The refactor to `sync::aref` from `types::` was introduced in the commit: 
> commit 07dad44aa9a9 
> ("rust: kernel: move ARef and AlwaysRefCounted to sync::aref")
> link [1]
> 
> The goal of this series is to complete the migration of these
> types to `sync`, as discussed with Miguel Ojeda [2].
> The last commit in this series removes the temporary re-exports
> from `types.rs` that were originally added to avoid breaking the
> build during the transition.
> 
> [1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=07dad44aa9a93b16af19e8609a10b241c352b440
> [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CANiq72=hSTpAj7w8bvcwoJkivxD_FPKnx9jD6iNvhsENnnXBzg@mail.gmail.com/
> 
> Shankari Anand (10):
>   drivers: android: binder: Update ARef imports from sync::aref
>   drivers: gpu: Update ARef imports from sync::aref
>   rust: device: Update ARef and AlwaysRefCounted imports from sync::aref
>   rust: drm: Update AlwaysRefCounted imports to use sync::aref
>   rust: kernel: Update ARef and AlwaysRefCounted imports to use
>     sync::aref
>   rust: kernel: Update ARef and AlwaysRefCounted imports to use
>     sync::aref
>   rust: kernel: Update ARef imports to use sync::aref
>   rust: kernel: Update AlwaysRefCounted imports to use sync::aref
>   samples: rust: Update ARef imports to use sync::aref
>   rust: kernel: remove temporary re-exports of ARef and AlwaysRefCounted
> 
>  drivers/android/binder/process.rs      |  2 +-
>  drivers/android/binder/thread.rs       |  3 +--
>  drivers/gpu/drm/tyr/driver.rs          |  2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/nova-core/gsp/sequencer.rs |  2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/nova-core/vbios.rs         |  2 +-
>  rust/kernel/device.rs                  |  4 ++--
>  rust/kernel/device/property.rs         |  5 +++--
>  rust/kernel/drm/gem/mod.rs             |  2 +-
>  rust/kernel/i2c.rs                     | 10 ++++------
>  rust/kernel/pwm.rs                     |  3 ++-
>  rust/kernel/scatterlist.rs             |  3 ++-
>  rust/kernel/types.rs                   |  2 --
>  rust/kernel/usb.rs                     |  3 ++-
>  samples/rust/rust_debugfs.rs           |  2 +-
>  14 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

I will pick up the DRM ones (patch 2 & 4) once the branch re-opens on
Dec 15th.

Alice