On Thu, Sep 26, 2024 at 02:58:54PM +0000, Alice Ryhl wrote: > A misc device is generally the best place to start with your first Rust > driver, so having abstractions for miscdevice in Rust will be important > for our ability to teach Rust to kernel developers. > > I intend to add a sample driver using these abstractions, and I also > intend to use it in Rust Binder to handle the case where binderfs is > turned off. > > I know that the patchset is still a bit rough. It could use some work on > the file position aspect. But I'm sending this out now to get feedback > on the overall approach. Very cool! > This patchset depends on files [1] and vma [2]. > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240915-alice-file-v10-0-88484f7a3dcf@xxxxxxxxxx/ [1] > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240806-vma-v5-1-04018f05de2b@xxxxxxxxxx/ [2] > Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@xxxxxxxxxx> Does it really need all of those dependencies? I know your development stack is deep here, but maybe I can unwind a bit of the file stuff to get this in for the next merge window (6.13-rc1) if those two aren't going to be planned for there. I'll look into this some more next week, thanks! greg k-h
