Hi Tomasz, On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 01:12:29PM +0900, Tomasz Figa wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 1:19 AM Daniel Almeida wrote: > > > > Hi Hans, all, > > > > I’d like to attend in person and discuss the use of Rust in the subsystem, especially in light of [0] and [1]. > > > > Please note that these are new submissions that are unrelated with what was discussed last year. > > > > 30 minutes will do. > > > > [0] https://lwn.net/ml/linux-media/20240227215146.46487-1-daniel.almeida@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > > [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/970565 > > Somewhat related to the topic: I see potential for a quite big > redesign of the videobuf2 framework going forward and recently with > more Rust adoption I'm starting to think it could benefit from being > implemented in Rust, since we would have to rewrite it quite a bit > anyway. Especially since it's a part of the subsystem that has to deal > with memory management, object lifetime and asynchronousness quite a > lot and we had a history of issues there. So it could be interesting > to hear everyone's thoughts. More than the language choice, what picked my interest here is why you htink vb2 should be rewritten. Do you have a high-level overview document that explains the rationale and what you think the new vb2 should look like ? > That said, I wouldn't be able to travel this time unfortunately, so it > would be nice if we could arrange this topic in a time slot friendly > for remote attendance from Japan. Also +Hidenori Kobayashi from my > team who would also be interested in joining remotely. -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart
