Re: [PATCH v7 3/6] rust: str: implement `AsRef` for `[u8]` and `BStr`

[Daniel Almeida]

> On 21 Feb 2025, at 13:01, Daniel Almeida <daniel.alme...@collabora.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On 18 Feb 2025, at 10:00, Andreas Hindborg <a.hindb...@kernel.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Implement `AsRef<BStr>` for `[u8]` and `BStr` so these can be used
>> interchangeably for operations on `BStr`.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindb...@kernel.org>
>> ---
>> rust/kernel/str.rs | 12 ++++++++++++
>> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
>> 
>> diff --git a/rust/kernel/str.rs b/rust/kernel/str.rs
>> index ba6b1a5c4f99d..c6bd2c69543dc 100644
>> --- a/rust/kernel/str.rs
>> +++ b/rust/kernel/str.rs
>> @@ -125,6 +125,18 @@ fn index(&self, index: Idx) -> &Self::Output {
>>    }
>> }
>> 
>> +impl AsRef<BStr> for [u8] {
>> +    fn as_ref(&self) -> &BStr {
>> +        BStr::from_bytes(self)
>> +    }
>> +}
>> +
>> +impl AsRef<BStr> for BStr {
>> +    fn as_ref(&self) -> &BStr {
>> +        self
>> +    }
>> +}
> 
> Why do you need this last one?

I see that this is used by the following patch.

> 
>> +
>> /// Creates a new [`BStr`] from a string literal.
>> ///
>> /// `b_str!` converts the supplied string literal to byte string, so 
>> non-ASCII
>> 
>> -- 
>> 2.47.0

Reviewed-by: Daniel Almeida <daniel.alme...@collabora.com>