Re: [PATCH v3 00/16] Device / Driver PCI / Platform Rust abstractions

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On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 11:31:37PM +0200, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> This patch series implements the necessary Rust abstractions to implement
> device drivers in Rust.
> 
> This includes some basic generalizations for driver registration, handling of ID
> tables, MMIO operations and device resource handling.
> 
> Those generalizations are used to implement device driver support for two
> busses, the PCI and platfrom bus (with OF IDs) in order to provide some evidence
> that the generalizations work as intended.
> 
> The patch series also includes two patches adding two driver samples, one PCI
> driver and one platform driver.
> 
> The PCI bits are motivated by the Nova driver project [1], but are used by at
> least one more OOT driver (rnvme [2]).
> 
> The platform bits, besides adding some more evidence to the base abstractions,
> are required by a few more OOT drivers aiming at going upstream, i.e. rvkms [3],
> cpufreq-dt [4], asahi [5] and the i2c work from Fabien [6].
> 
> The patches of this series can also be [7], [8] and [9].

Nice!

Thanks for redoing this, at first glance it's much better.  It will be a
few days before I can dive into this, It's conference season and the
travel is rough, so be patient but I will get to this...

thanks,

greg k-h




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