rust-for-linux.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@google.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	rust-for-linux <rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/17] Rust support
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2021 15:12:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YOW2auE24e888TBE@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YOW1Nj8+a2Yth2++@google.com>

On Wed, Jul 07, 2021 at 03:07:50PM +0100, Wedson Almeida Filho wrote:
> Miguel's point is that it does implement the vast majority of binder features
> and is non-trivial, so it could be used as evidence that useful kernel drivers
> can be built with Rust; not just "transpiled" from C, but written with the Rust
> safety guarantees.

binder is not a kernel driver.  It is a ill design IPC mechanism
absolutely no representative for other kernel code.

Please write an actual real driver dealing with real (and common) hardware
and come back with the results.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-07 14:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-04 20:27 [PATCH 00/17] Rust support ojeda
2021-07-04 20:27 ` [PATCH 01/17] kallsyms: support big kernel symbols (2-byte lengths) ojeda
2021-07-04 20:52   ` Linus Torvalds
2021-07-04 21:15     ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-04 21:28       ` Linus Torvalds
2021-07-04 21:04   ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-07-04 21:17     ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-04 21:33       ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-07-04 21:49         ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-07-04 22:07           ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-04 22:20         ` Gary Guo
2021-07-04 22:42           ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-07-04 23:14             ` Gary Guo
2021-07-13 18:02             ` Kent Overstreet
2021-07-04 21:20     ` Gary Guo
2021-07-05  4:35       ` Willy Tarreau
2021-07-04 20:27 ` [PATCH 02/17] kallsyms: increase maximum kernel symbol length to 512 ojeda
2021-07-14 18:20   ` Nick Desaulniers
2021-07-14 19:04     ` Linus Torvalds
2021-07-14 20:09       ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-07-14 20:21         ` Linus Torvalds
2021-07-14 20:48           ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-07-14 22:40             ` Linus Torvalds
2021-07-14 20:19     ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-04 20:27 ` [PATCH 03/17] Makefile: generate `CLANG_FLAGS` even in GCC builds ojeda
2021-07-14 18:13   ` Nick Desaulniers
2021-07-14 18:16     ` Nick Desaulniers
2021-07-14 20:31     ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-04 20:27 ` [PATCH 04/17] vsprintf: add new `%pA` format specifier ojeda
2021-07-07 20:31   ` Nick Desaulniers
2021-07-07 22:33     ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-04 20:27 ` [PATCH 05/17] rust: add C helpers ojeda
2021-07-07 10:19   ` Marco Elver
2021-07-09 10:31     ` Marco Elver
2021-07-09 14:32     ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-04 20:27 ` [PATCH 06/17] rust: add `compiler_builtins` crate ojeda
2021-07-04 20:27 ` [PATCH 08/17] rust: add `build_error` crate ojeda
2021-07-04 20:27 ` [PATCH 09/17] rust: add `macros` crate ojeda
2021-07-04 20:27 ` [PATCH 11/17] rust: export generated symbols ojeda
2021-07-04 20:27 ` [PATCH 12/17] Kbuild: add Rust support ojeda
2021-07-04 20:27 ` [PATCH 13/17] docs: add Rust documentation ojeda
2021-07-05  5:02   ` Willy Tarreau
2021-07-06  0:06     ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-06  2:09       ` Willy Tarreau
2021-07-14 18:37   ` Nick Desaulniers
2021-07-14 19:55     ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-04 20:27 ` [PATCH 14/17] samples: add Rust examples ojeda
2021-07-04 20:27 ` [PATCH 15/17] scripts: add `generate_rust_analyzer.py` ojeda
2021-07-05  5:05   ` Willy Tarreau
2021-07-05 23:41     ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-04 20:27 ` [PATCH 16/17] MAINTAINERS: Rust ojeda
2021-07-06  0:26   ` Pedro Tammela
2021-07-06 22:14     ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-04 23:11 ` [PATCH 00/17] Rust support Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-07  6:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-07-07 12:33   ` Miguel Ojeda
2021-07-07 12:50     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-07-07 14:07       ` Wedson Almeida Filho
2021-07-07 14:12         ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2021-07-07 15:02         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-07-07 20:56           ` Finn Behrens
2021-07-08  0:58             ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-07-08  6:39               ` [PATCH 00/17] Rust support, NVMe Geert Stappers
2021-07-08  8:29                 ` Finn Behrens
2021-07-22 22:55               ` [PATCH 00/17] Rust support Wedson Almeida Filho
2021-07-23  1:17                 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-07-23 11:33                   ` [PATCH 00/17] Rust support, GPIO driver Geert Stappers
2021-07-23 15:08                 ` [PATCH 00/17] Rust support Keith Busch
2021-07-07 10:51 ` Marco Elver
2021-07-07 11:28   ` Miguel Ojeda

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=YOW2auE24e888TBE@infradead.org \
    --to=hch@infradead.org \
    --cc=gregkh@linuxfoundation.org \
    --cc=linux-doc@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com \
    --cc=ojeda@kernel.org \
    --cc=rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=torvalds@linux-foundation.org \
    --cc=wedsonaf@google.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).