Nouveau - Aug 2025 - [PATCH v2 1/8] rust: transmute: add `from_bytes_copy` method to `FromBytes` trait

On Tue Aug 26, 2025 at 1:07 PM JST, Alexandre Courbot
wrote:
> `FromBytes::from_bytes` comes with a few practical limitations:
>
> - It requires the bytes slice to have the same alignment as the returned
>   type, which might not be guaranteed in the case of a byte stream,
> - It returns a reference, requiring the returned type to implement
>   `Clone` if one wants to keep the value for longer than the lifetime of
>   the slice.
>
> To overcome these when needed, add a `from_bytes_copy` with a default
> implementation in the trait. `from_bytes_copy` returns an owned value
> that is populated using an unaligned read, removing the lifetime
> constraint and making it usable even on non-aligned byte slices.
>
> Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl at google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot at nvidia.com>
We got 3 Reviewed-by on this patch - Miguel, are you ok if I merge it
together with Christian's `from_bytes` patch, since they are closely
related?

On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 1:26?PM Alexandre Courbot <acourbot at nvidia.com>
wrote:
>
> We got 3 Reviewed-by on this patch - Miguel, are you ok if I merge it
> together with Christian's `from_bytes` patch, since they are closely
> related?
If you are taking this series this cycle, then sure!

Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda at kernel.org>

Thanks!

Cheers,
Miguel

On Thu Aug 28, 2025 at 8:45 PM JST, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 1:26?PM Alexandre Courbot <acourbot at
nvidia.com> wrote:
>>
>> We got 3 Reviewed-by on this patch - Miguel, are you ok if I merge it
>> together with Christian's `from_bytes` patch, since they are
closely
>> related?
>
> If you are taking this series this cycle, then sure!
>
> Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda at kernel.org>
Thanks Miguel! Pushed this into nova-next, right after Christian's
patch.