[PATCH 3/9] rust: block: use `kernel::{fmt,prelude::fmt!}`

Tamir Duberstein tamird at gmail.com
Wed Jul 9 20:00:02 UTC 2025


Reduce coupling to implementation details of the formatting machinery by
avoiding direct use for `core`'s formatting traits and macros.

Suggested-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl at google.com>
Link: https://rust-for-linux.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/288089-General/topic/Custom.20formatting/with/516476467
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>
---
 drivers/block/rnull.rs             | 2 +-
 rust/kernel/block/mq.rs            | 2 +-
 rust/kernel/block/mq/gen_disk.rs   | 2 +-
 rust/kernel/block/mq/raw_writer.rs | 3 +--
 4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/rnull.rs b/drivers/block/rnull.rs
index d07e76ae2c13..6366da12c5a5 100644
--- a/drivers/block/rnull.rs
+++ b/drivers/block/rnull.rs
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ fn init(_module: &'static ThisModule) -> impl PinInit<Self, Error> {
                 .logical_block_size(4096)?
                 .physical_block_size(4096)?
                 .rotational(false)
-                .build(format_args!("rnullb{}", 0), tagset)
+                .build(fmt!("rnullb{}", 0), tagset)
         })();
 
         try_pin_init!(Self {
diff --git a/rust/kernel/block/mq.rs b/rust/kernel/block/mq.rs
index 831445d37181..61ea35bba7d5 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/block/mq.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/block/mq.rs
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
 //!     Arc::pin_init(TagSet::new(1, 256, 1), flags::GFP_KERNEL)?;
 //! let mut disk = gen_disk::GenDiskBuilder::new()
 //!     .capacity_sectors(4096)
-//!     .build(format_args!("myblk"), tagset)?;
+//!     .build(fmt!("myblk"), tagset)?;
 //!
 //! # Ok::<(), kernel::error::Error>(())
 //! ```
diff --git a/rust/kernel/block/mq/gen_disk.rs b/rust/kernel/block/mq/gen_disk.rs
index cd54cd64ea88..494c95623b97 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/block/mq/gen_disk.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/block/mq/gen_disk.rs
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
 //! C header: [`include/linux/blk_mq.h`](srctree/include/linux/blk_mq.h)
 
 use crate::block::mq::{raw_writer::RawWriter, Operations, TagSet};
+use crate::fmt::{self, Write};
 use crate::{bindings, error::from_err_ptr, error::Result, sync::Arc};
 use crate::{error, static_lock_class};
-use core::fmt::{self, Write};
 
 /// A builder for [`GenDisk`].
 ///
diff --git a/rust/kernel/block/mq/raw_writer.rs b/rust/kernel/block/mq/raw_writer.rs
index 7e2159e4f6a6..d311e24e2595 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/block/mq/raw_writer.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/block/mq/raw_writer.rs
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
 
-use core::fmt::{self, Write};
-
 use crate::error::Result;
+use crate::fmt::{self, Write};
 use crate::prelude::EINVAL;
 
 /// A mutable reference to a byte buffer where a string can be written into.

-- 
2.50.0



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