Re: [PATCH 2/5] rust: device: Add a minimal RawDevice trait

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Feb 24 2023 - 10:25:23 EST


On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 11:44:59PM +0900, Asahi Lina wrote:
> On 2023/02/24 23:19, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:>> Can we see some users
> of this code posted so I can see how struct device
> >> is going to work in a rust driver? That's the thing I worry most about
> >> the rust/C interaction here as we have two different ways of thinking
> >> about reference counts from the two worlds and putting them together is
> >> going to be "interesting", as can be seen here already.
> >
> > Also, where are you getting your 'struct device' from in the first
> > place? What bus is createing it and giving it to your rust driver?
>
> That would be platform for my GPU driver, matched via OF compatible.

Ick, a platform device? The GPU isn't on the PCI bus? Wow, that's
horrid...