On 26.09.24 16:58, 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. Sounds good! > 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. > > 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> > --- > Alice Ryhl (3): > rust: types: add Opaque::try_ffi_init > rust: file: add f_pos and set_f_pos > rust: miscdevice: add abstraction for defining miscdevices I recall that we had a sample miscdev driver in the old rust branch. Can you include that in this series, or is there still some stuff missing? I think it would be really useful for people that want to implement such a driver to have something to look at. --- Cheers, Benno
