[PATCH 00/10] rust: driver: use pointers instead of indices for ID info

Gary Guo gary at garyguo.net
Thu Jun 18 10:03:37 PDT 2026


Most C drivers use a pointer (and cast to kernel_ulong_t) for driver_data
fields in device_id. Rust code currently does not do this, but rather use
indices. These indices then needs to be translated to `&IdInfo` separately
and this is by a side table.

This leads to open-coded ACPI/OF handling in driver.rs, which is not
desirable. Convert the code to use pointers (or rather, static references)
instead.

Signed-off-by: Gary Guo <gary at garyguo.net>
---
Gary Guo (10):
      rust: driver: remove `IdTable::id`
      rust: driver: simplify `IdArray::new_without_index`
      rust: pci: use `Option<&IdInfo>` for device ID info
      rust: net/phy: remove expansion from doc
      rust: driver: centralize device ID handling
      rust: driver: remove `$module_table_name` from `module_device_table`
      rust: driver: store pointers in `DeviceId`
      rust: driver: remove open-coded matching logic
      rust: driver: remove duplicate ID table
      RFC: rust: driver: support map-like syntax for ID table

 drivers/cpufreq/rcpufreq_dt.rs        |   1 -
 drivers/gpu/drm/nova/driver.rs        |   1 -
 drivers/gpu/drm/tyr/driver.rs         |   1 -
 drivers/gpu/nova-core/driver.rs       |   3 +-
 drivers/pwm/pwm_th1520.rs             |   1 -
 rust/kernel/acpi.rs                   |  14 +--
 rust/kernel/auxiliary.rs              |  18 +--
 rust/kernel/device_id.rs              | 205 +++++++++++++++++++---------------
 rust/kernel/driver.rs                 | 114 ++-----------------
 rust/kernel/i2c.rs                    |  26 ++---
 rust/kernel/net/phy.rs                |  66 +----------
 rust/kernel/of.rs                     |  14 +--
 rust/kernel/pci.rs                    |  24 ++--
 rust/kernel/platform.rs               |   5 +-
 rust/kernel/usb.rs                    |  18 +--
 samples/rust/rust_debugfs.rs          |   1 -
 samples/rust/rust_dma.rs              |   3 +-
 samples/rust/rust_driver_auxiliary.rs |   4 +-
 samples/rust/rust_driver_i2c.rs       |   3 -
 samples/rust/rust_driver_pci.rs       |  11 +-
 samples/rust/rust_driver_platform.rs  |   2 -
 samples/rust/rust_driver_usb.rs       |   1 -
 samples/rust/rust_i2c_client.rs       |   2 -
 samples/rust/rust_soc.rs              |   2 -
 24 files changed, 166 insertions(+), 374 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: 4fa3f5fabb30bf00d7475d5a33459ea83d639bf9
change-id: 20260612-id_info-23eca472ccd8

Best regards,
--  
Gary Guo <gary at garyguo.net>




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