"Tamir Duberstein" <tamird@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Allow implementors to specify the foreign pointer type; this exposes > information about the pointed-to type such as its alignment. > > This requires the trait to be `unsafe` since it is now possible for > implementors to break soundness by returning a misaligned pointer. > > Encoding the pointer type in the trait (and avoiding pointer casts) > allows the compiler to check that implementors return the correct > pointer type. This is preferable to directly encoding the alignment in > the trait using a constant as the compiler would be unable to check it. > > Reviewed-by: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Tamir Duberstein <tamird@xxxxxxxxx> > --- Pleas pick up tags from Alice and Fiona from the configfs series where I included your patch: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/20250131-configfs-v1-1-87947611401c@xxxxxxxxxx/ Best regards, Andreas Hindborg
