Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] rust: add `bitfield!` macro

[Eliot Courtney]

On Thu Apr 16, 2026 at 8:22 AM JST, John Hubbard wrote:
> On 4/9/26 7:58 AM, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
>> This is the continuation of the `bitfield!` macro which started
>> alongside the `register!` one before being temporarily integrated into
>> it [1].
>> 
>> There were still ongoing discussions in [1], notably about improving the
>> ergonomics of setting bitfield values. This revision doesn't try to
>> address them yet (although the `with_const` setters partially solve the
>> issue); it just extracts the `bitfield!` macro and makes it available,
>> for the following reasons:
>> 
>> - To get the ball rolling again after several months of hiatus,
>> - Because it is already useful as-is, and ergonomics will be improved
>
> Yes, and I'm worried now that we can't write things such as Joel's page
> tables without it.
>
> Can we please put this into your drm-rust-next-staging ASAP? I don't
> think we have any comments that would really need to hold that up.
>
>
> thanks,

Yes this seems fine to me as well. I'm personally fine with improving
the build errors in a follow-up.