On Wed Jul 9, 2025 at 11:01 PM CEST, Tamir Duberstein wrote: > On Wed, Jul 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM Benno Lossin <los...@kernel.org> wrote: >> >> On Wed Jul 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM CEST, Tamir Duberstein wrote: >> > Reduce coupling to implementation details of the formatting machinery by >> > avoiding direct use for `core`'s formatting traits and macros. >> > >> > Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> >> > Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <alicer...@google.com> >> > Signed-off-by: Tamir Duberstein <tam...@gmail.com> >> > --- >> > rust/kernel/init.rs | 4 ++-- >> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >> >> I usually prefix patches to init.rs with `rust: init`. I'll fix it up >> when picking the patch or Miguel can do it if he takes it: >> >> Acked-by: Benno Lossin <los...@kernel.org> > > Actually, squinting at this patch more closely now, I think this isn't > what you had in mind. The comment says "Dummy error that can be > constructed outside the `kernel` crate." but the error now comes from > the kernel crate :(
It's a re-export, so the comment still holds. > Perhaps you could suggest a different modification that would both > meet the original intent and allow references to core::fmt to > disappear? The code comes from a time when `Error::from_errno` was `pub(crate)`, but that was changed some time ago... Now we can just remove the `FromErrno` trait entirely from that example. Feel free to do that in this series or as a standalone patch. --- Cheers, Benno