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Alice Ryhl authored
This allows you to get a raw pointer to THIS_MODULE for use in unsafe
code. The Rust Binder RFC uses it when defining fops for the binderfs
component [1].

This doesn't really need to go in now - it could go in together with
Rust Binder like how it is sent in the Rust Binder RFC. However, the
upcoming 1.77.0 release of the Rust compiler introduces a new warning,
and applying this patch now will silence that warning. That allows us to
avoid adding the #[allow(dead_code)] annotation seen in [2].

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/20231101-rust-binder-v1-2-08ba9197f637@google.com/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240217002717.57507-1-ojeda@kernel.org/

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Signed-off-by: default avatarAlice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarTrevor Gross <tmgross@umich.edu>
Reviewed-by: default avatarBenno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240226-module-as-ptr-v1-1-83bc89213113@google.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarMiguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
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