[PATCH v2 4/8] rust: drm: add device abstraction

[Lyude Paul]

On Fri, 2025-04-11 at 01:55 +0200, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> +    /// Not intended to be called externally, except via declare_drm_ioctls!()
> +    ///
> +    /// # Safety
> +    ///
> +    /// Callers must ensure that `ptr` is valid, non-null, and has a non-zero reference count,
> +    /// i.e. it must be ensured that the reference count of the C `struct drm_device` `ptr` points
> +    /// to can't drop to zero, for the duration of this function call and the entire duration when
> +    /// the returned reference exists.
> +    ///
> +    /// Additionally, callers must ensure that the `struct device`, `ptr` is pointing to, is
> +    /// embedded in `Self`.
> +    #[doc(hidden)]
> +    pub unsafe fn as_ref<'a>(ptr: *const bindings::drm_device) -> &'a Self {
> +        // SAFETY: By the safety requirements of this function `ptr` is a valid pointer to a
> +        // `struct drm_device` embedded in `Self`.
> +        let ptr = unsafe { Self::from_drm_device(ptr) };
> +
> +        // SAFETY: `ptr` is valid by the safety requirements of this function.
> +        unsafe { &*ptr.cast() }
> +    }
> +}

Hm. Are we sure that `as_ref()` is really the function name we want here? We
already have AsRef<kernel::device::Device> implemented for DRM devices, I'm
not sure if this function would cause a naming conflict since it doesn't use
self but at the very least it does seem a little bit confusing.

Why not call it either from_raw(), or (depending on what RFL people think)
from_c()?

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Cheers,
 Lyude Paul (she/her)
 Software Engineer at Red Hat

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