Re: [PATCH v8 00/31] Rust support

2022-08-02 Thread Miguel Ojeda
On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 5:09 PM Miguel Ojeda wrote: > > Yeah, patch 17, exactly (patch 11 is the `alloc` import). I have asked > Konstantin privately about them. The patches are showing up now in lore -- not sure if it was just a delay (which would be consistent with the lack of bounce) or

Re: [PATCH v8 00/31] Rust support

2022-08-02 Thread Miguel Ojeda
On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 4:01 PM Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > No objections to any of this. I love the idea of being able to write > filesystems in Rust. I just think it would go more smoothly if > linux-fsdevel were involved more closely so people at least have the > option of being able to follow

Re: [PATCH v8 00/31] Rust support

2022-08-02 Thread Miguel Ojeda
On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 3:48 PM Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > handwaiving and pointing to git trees is not how Linux development > works. Please make sure all the patches go to the relevant lists > and maintainers first, and actually do have ACKs. Which hand-waving? In fact, we were requested to

Re: [PATCH v8 00/31] Rust support

2022-08-02 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Tue, Aug 02, 2022 at 03:45:50PM +0200, Miguel Ojeda wrote: > Hi Willy, > > On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 2:26 PM Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > > > None of this (afaict) has been discussed on linux-fsdevel. And I may > > have missed somethiing, but I don't see the fs module in this series > > of

Re: [PATCH v8 00/31] Rust support

2022-08-02 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Miguel, handwaiving and pointing to git trees is not how Linux development works. Please make sure all the patches go to the relevant lists and maintainers first, and actually do have ACKs.

Re: [PATCH v8 00/31] Rust support

2022-08-02 Thread Miguel Ojeda
Hi Willy, On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 2:26 PM Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > None of this (afaict) has been discussed on linux-fsdevel. And I may > have missed somethiing, but I don't see the fs module in this series > of patches. Could linux-fsdevel be cc'd on the development of Rust > support for

Re: [PATCH v8 00/31] Rust support

2022-08-02 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Tue, Aug 02, 2022 at 03:49:47AM +0200, Miguel Ojeda wrote: > Some of the improvements to the abstractions and example drivers are: > > - Filesystem support (`fs` module), including: > > + `INode` type (which wraps `struct inode`). > + `DEntry` type (which wraps `struct dentry`).

[PATCH v8 00/31] Rust support

2022-08-01 Thread Miguel Ojeda
Rust support This is the patch series (v8) to add support for Rust as a second language to the Linux kernel. If you are interested in following this effort, please join us in the mailing list at: rust-for-li...@vger.kernel.org and take a look at the project itself at: