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fishinabarrel / linux-kernel-module-rust

Framework for writing Linux kernel modules in safe Rust
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Refactor the CStr API to reduce the need for nightly features #271

Closed alex closed 4 years ago

geofft commented 4 years ago

Hrrrmm. I'm fine with this, but I think we should plan to revert it once we can, because now our API looks pretty different from str and OsStr. That is, I think we should leave const_str_as_bytes (or some other way of accomplishing the same goal) on our list of things we need from Rust upstream.

I don't think const_str_as_bytes is gonna be hard to stabilize (though maybe we should check?), so my personal feeling is that it would be fine to rely on the feature for now - we're on nightly for a while because of alloc, anyway.

Approving, I'll leave it up to you as to whether you want to merge it for now.

alex commented 4 years ago

Just to be clear, the feature in question here is const_raw_ptr_deref, not const_str_as_bytes.