[PATCH 11/17] rust: miscdevice: replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings

Tamir Duberstein tamird at gmail.com
Thu Jul 10 15:31:14 UTC 2025


C-String literals were added in Rust 1.77. Replace instances of
`kernel::c_str!` with C-String literals where possible.

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>
---
 samples/rust/rust_misc_device.rs | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/samples/rust/rust_misc_device.rs b/samples/rust/rust_misc_device.rs
index c881fd6dbd08..12b64296e912 100644
--- a/samples/rust/rust_misc_device.rs
+++ b/samples/rust/rust_misc_device.rs
@@ -98,7 +98,6 @@
 use core::pin::Pin;
 
 use kernel::{
-    c_str,
     device::Device,
     fs::File,
     ioctl::{_IO, _IOC_SIZE, _IOR, _IOW},
@@ -133,7 +132,7 @@ fn init(_module: &'static ThisModule) -> impl PinInit<Self, Error> {
         pr_info!("Initialising Rust Misc Device Sample\n");
 
         let options = MiscDeviceOptions {
-            name: c_str!("rust-misc-device"),
+            name: c"rust-misc-device",
         };
 
         try_pin_init!(Self {

-- 
2.50.0



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