--generate-cstr is a good idea and generally the right thing to do,
but it is not available in Debian 12 and Ubuntu 22.04.  Work around
the absence.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
---
 meson.build                       |  4 +++-
 rust/hw/char/pl011/src/device.rs  |  1 +
 rust/qemu-api/src/device_class.rs | 10 ++++++++++
 rust/qemu-api/tests/tests.rs      |  4 ++--
 4 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 9c57d7e5c6d..a083e3434b3 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -3941,13 +3941,15 @@ common_all = static_library('common',
                             dependencies: common_ss.all_dependencies())
 
 if have_rust
+  # We would like to use --generate-cstr, but it is only available
+  # starting with bindgen 0.66.0.  The oldest supported versions
+  # are in Ubuntu 22.04 (0.59.1) and Debian 12 (0.60.1).
   bindgen_args = [
     '--disable-header-comment',
     '--raw-line', '// @generated',
     '--ctypes-prefix', 'std::os::raw',
     '--formatter', 'rustfmt',
     '--generate-block',
-    '--generate-cstr',
     '--impl-debug',
     '--merge-extern-blocks',
     '--no-doc-comments',
diff --git a/rust/hw/char/pl011/src/device.rs b/rust/hw/char/pl011/src/device.rs
index c26d21e079d..1bcb6a0fba8 100644
--- a/rust/hw/char/pl011/src/device.rs
+++ b/rust/hw/char/pl011/src/device.rs
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
     bindings::{self, *},
     c_str,
     definitions::ObjectImpl,
+    device_class::TYPE_SYS_BUS_DEVICE,
 };
 
 use crate::{
diff --git a/rust/qemu-api/src/device_class.rs b/rust/qemu-api/src/device_class.rs
index ce3d5f50507..995267dd715 100644
--- a/rust/qemu-api/src/device_class.rs
+++ b/rust/qemu-api/src/device_class.rs
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 // Author(s): Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org>
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
 
+use std::ffi::CStr;
+
+use crate::bindings;
+
 #[macro_export]
 macro_rules! device_class_init {
     ($func:ident, props => $props:ident, realize_fn => $realize_fn:expr, legacy_reset_fn => $legacy_reset_fn:expr, vmsd => $vmsd:ident$(,)*) => {
@@ -83,3 +87,9 @@ macro_rules! vm_state_description {
         };
     }
 }
+
+// workaround until we can use --generate-cstr in bindgen.
+pub const TYPE_DEVICE: &CStr =
+    unsafe { CStr::from_bytes_with_nul_unchecked(bindings::TYPE_DEVICE) };
+pub const TYPE_SYS_BUS_DEVICE: &CStr =
+    unsafe { CStr::from_bytes_with_nul_unchecked(bindings::TYPE_SYS_BUS_DEVICE) };
diff --git a/rust/qemu-api/tests/tests.rs b/rust/qemu-api/tests/tests.rs
index 96e413b75ee..f932acd5c10 100644
--- a/rust/qemu-api/tests/tests.rs
+++ b/rust/qemu-api/tests/tests.rs
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
     bindings::*,
     c_str, declare_properties, define_property,
     definitions::{Class, ObjectImpl},
-    device_class_init, vm_state_description,
+    device_class, device_class_init, vm_state_description,
 };
 
 #[test]
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ impl ObjectImpl for DummyState {
         type Class = DummyClass;
         const TYPE_INFO: qemu_api::bindings::TypeInfo = qemu_api::type_info! { Self };
         const TYPE_NAME: &'static CStr = c_str!("dummy");
-        const PARENT_TYPE_NAME: Option<&'static CStr> = Some(TYPE_DEVICE);
+        const PARENT_TYPE_NAME: Option<&'static CStr> = Some(device_class::TYPE_DEVICE);
         const ABSTRACT: bool = false;
         const INSTANCE_INIT: Option<unsafe extern "C" fn(obj: *mut Object)> = None;
         const INSTANCE_POST_INIT: Option<unsafe extern "C" fn(obj: *mut Object)> = None;
-- 
2.46.2