Re: [PATCH 01/12] rust: io: add Region::try_subregion

"Eliot Courtney" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.documentation,gmane.linux.kernel.rust,gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.comp.video.dri.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed Aug 5, 2026 at 7:43 PM JST, Gary Guo wrote:
> On Wed Aug 5, 2026 at 6:44 AM BST, Eliot Courtney wrote:
>> Add a helper to get a subregion of an IO view fallibly.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Eliot Courtney <[email protected]>
>> ---
>>  rust/kernel/io.rs | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>  1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Looks like the case where you need this don't actually require a `Region`
> (dynamically sized type) but rather a fixed size window?
>
> In that case the next version of
> https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/[email protected]/
> will contain what you need.

Yeah you are right. I think a previous version I was working on needed
runtime lengths. But yes it should work with your compile time
subregion stuff.
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