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From:   Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 6 Apr 2023 18:45:36 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 03/13] rust: lock: introduce `Mutex`
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc:     Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@gmail.com>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
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On Wed, Apr 5, 2023 at 10:49=E2=80=AFPM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.or=
g> wrote:
>
> Oh man, that's sad, I was hoping it would write the equivalent inline
> function in rust.

Some of us hope Rust would directly handle importing C headers, so
avoiding the intermediate step, like a few languages support.

> But yeah, feel free to convert macros to inline functions where the
> difference is moot. There is indeed no real reason for mutex_lock() to
> not be an inline function in that case.

We initially minimized changes on the C side on purpose, but if
maintainers are OK with that (modulo exceptions), it would be great.

Cheers,
Miguel