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From: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 02:42:11 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] In-place module initialisation
To: Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@gmail.com>
Cc: rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org, Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>, 
	Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>, Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>, 
	Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>, =?UTF-8?Q?Bj=C3=B6rn_Roy_Baron?= <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com>, 
	Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me>, Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@samsung.com>, 
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On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 8:55=E2=80=AFPM Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@gmai=
l.com> wrote:
>
> From: Wedson Almeida Filho <walmeida@microsoft.com>
>
> Introduce `InPlaceModule`, which allows modules to be initialised
> inplace, as opposed to the current state where modules must return an
> instance which is moved to its final memory location.
>
> This allows us to have modules whose state hold objects that must be
> initialised inplace like locks. It also allows us to implement
> registrations (e.g., driver registration) inplace and have them similar
> to their C counterparts where no new allocations are needed.
>
> This is built on top of the allocation APIs because the sample module is
> a modified version of rust_minimal, which would be incompatible with the
> allocation API series because it uses vectors.

For the moment, applied 1/5 and 2/5 to `rust-fixes` (tagged for stable
too) -- thanks everyone!

Cheers,
Miguel