On Wed Feb 4, 2026 at 12:56 PM CET, Andreas Hindborg wrote: > From: Asahi Lina <[email protected]> > > By analogy to `AlwaysRefCounted` and `ARef`, an `Ownable` type is a > (typically C FFI) type that *may* be owned by Rust, but need not be. Unlike > `AlwaysRefCounted`, this mechanism expects the reference to be unique > within Rust, and does not allow cloning. > > Conceptually, this is similar to a `KBox<T>`, except that it delegates > resource management to the `T` instead of using a generic allocator. > > This change is a derived work based on work by Asahi Lina > <[email protected]> [1] and Oliver Mangold <[email protected]>. > > Link: > https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/[email protected]/ > [1] > Signed-off-by: Andreas Hindborg <[email protected]>
Given the From: line above, this needs Lina's SoB. This patch was also originally posted by Abdiel and Boqun and I think we should account for this. I mentioned this in a couple of previous versions already, e.g. in [1]. I think we should account for this. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/
