Re: [PATCH v1] rust: time: rename ClockSource trait to ClockId

FUJITA Tomonori <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.rust-for-linux
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:01:17 +0200
Andreas Hindborg <[email protected]> wrote:

> "FUJITA Tomonori" <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>> From: FUJITA Tomonori <[email protected]>
>>
>> The `ClockSource` trait has nothing to do with the C `struct clocksource`
>> in `include/linux/clocksource.h`, which abstracts the hardware counter
>> used as a source of time for the majority of the clockids. The trait
>> instead carries a `clockid_t` `ID`, i.e. one of the IDs of "the various
>> system clocks (for POSIX.1b interval timers)" as described in
>> include/uapi/linux/time.h (CLOCK_MONOTONIC, CLOCK_REALTIME, ...). It thus
>> plays the role of a `clockid_t`, and the `ClockSource` name overlaps
>> confusingly with the C `clocksource` concept when reading across C and
>> Rust code.
>>
>> Rename the trait to `ClockId` to reflect that it represents a
>> `clockid_t`. This is a pure rename; there is no functional change.
>>
>> Suggested-by: John Stultz <[email protected]>
>> Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <[email protected]>
>> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/CANDhNCrKMdHCmL76LWCROVF2Ly-9NxmfmQ2T+P=iv34aVkO2uQ@mail.gmail.com/
> 
> Makes sense to me.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Andreas Hindborg <[email protected]>

Thanks!

Miguel, Andreas, can we merge this via rust-next?
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