Re: Assisting with kernel Rust development

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On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 10:23 AM Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Amy,
>
> Glad to hear you're interested! We've got a whole bunch of open bugs
> on https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues, so that's always a
> starting point for looking for things to work on.
>
> Cheers,
> Alex
>
> On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 1:19 PM Amy Parker
> <apark0006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hello!
> >
> > My name is Amy Parker. You may have seen me on the kernel forums before under my previous email address <enbyamy@xxxxxxxxx>.
> >
> > It's been a while since I've attempted to contribute to the kernel, so I figured I'd post here. My previous attempt had been under Matthew Wilcox's direction to modify the DAX driver for NVDIMMs to use XA_ZERO_ENTRY to represent a zero page instead of DAX_ZERO_PAGE (allowing us to save a constant) - but this failed since the ascending values of other flags conflicted with the value presented by XA_ZERO_ENTRY.
> >
> > I saw the recent patch sequence adding Rust support to the kernel. As a Rust developer, I figured I could get back into kernel development because of this, and was wondering how I could help. Are there any active objectives that need work?
> >
>
>
> --
> All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good people to do nothing.

Okay, I will!

Thank you.

    -amyip




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