On Mon Mar 9, 2026 at 5:01 PM GMT, Tamir Duberstein wrote:
> Now that all literals are C-Strings, update the documentation to explain
> that use of this macro should be limited to non-literal strings.
>
> Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/1075
> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Tamir Duberstein <[email protected]>
> ---
> This patch completes the work of replacing our custom `CStr` with
> upstream's.
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Drop rename, keep only documentation update. (Gary Guo)
> - Add example of misuse to documentation. (Gary Guo)
> - Link to v1:
> https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
The lint for `c_str!("literal")` now lands in klint:
https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/klint/commit/69fa3560e28031faa8c5a93e1ac95cc2b3689306
Best,
Gary
