How will cooperation of rust-knowing and not-rust-knowing maintainers look like?
How will cooperation of rust-knowing and not-rust-knowing maintainers look like?
Posted Sep 18, 2021 8:24 UTC (Sat) by matthias (subscriber, #94967)In reply to: How will cooperation of rust-knowing and not-rust-knowing maintainers look like? by pbonzini
Parent article: The Rust for Linux project
It is not the driver requiring changes to the subsystems that gray wolf and broonie are talking about, but the other direction. I.e., a change to the subsystem that requires all users to be adapted. In this case the maintainer of the subsystem has to adapt the rust wrapper for the C API.
Posted Sep 18, 2021 18:32 UTC (Sat)
by broonie (subscriber, #7078)
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How will cooperation of rust-knowing and not-rust-knowing maintainers look like?
Right, and especially drivers needing some new subsystem improvements to cope with some new feature or usage pattern that the hardware has - this is especially true for things not on standardised buses (or not entirely) where it’s much easier for hardware to do new things.