Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure in final build

From: "Danilo Krummrich" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:05:44 +0100

On Thu Mar 26, 2026 at 5:04 PM CET, Mark Brown wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> During the final builds, today's linux-next build (arm64 allyesconfig)
> failed like this:
>
> error[E0405]: cannot find trait `AlwaysRefCounted` in module

This is due to a conflict with rust-next, which eventually removed the old
import path of AlwaysRefCounted (kernel::types::AlwaysRefCounted).

We've already fixed this up in [1] and applied it to the drm-rust tree, so those
should be gone for the next round.

Thanks,
Danilo

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email-masked]/