[PATCH 05/10] rust: drm: use `core::ffi::CStr` method names

Tamir Duberstein tamird at gmail.com
Wed Jul 9 19:58:55 UTC 2025


Prepare for `core::ffi::CStr` taking the place of `kernel::str::CStr` by
avoid methods that only exist on the latter.

Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/1075
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl at google.com>
Signed-off-by: Tamir Duberstein <tamird at gmail.com>
---
 rust/kernel/drm/device.rs | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/rust/kernel/drm/device.rs b/rust/kernel/drm/device.rs
index b7ee3c464a12..998b942b6dd8 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/drm/device.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/drm/device.rs
@@ -83,8 +83,8 @@ impl<T: drm::Driver> Device<T> {
         major: T::INFO.major,
         minor: T::INFO.minor,
         patchlevel: T::INFO.patchlevel,
-        name: T::INFO.name.as_char_ptr().cast_mut(),
-        desc: T::INFO.desc.as_char_ptr().cast_mut(),
+        name: crate::str::as_char_ptr_in_const_context(T::INFO.name).cast_mut(),
+        desc: crate::str::as_char_ptr_in_const_context(T::INFO.desc).cast_mut(),
 
         driver_features: drm::driver::FEAT_GEM,
         ioctls: T::IOCTLS.as_ptr(),

-- 
2.50.0



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