Re: [PATCH] rust: time: New module for timekeeping functions

[Thomas Gleixner]

Lina !

On Wed, Feb 22 2023 at 13:56, Asahi Lina wrote:
> On 22/02/2023 04.00, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> Be aware that my Rust foo is not even rusty it's close to non-existant.
>> That's probaly true for many maintainers you need to interact with.
>
> Please do feel free to reach out and ask any questions about all this
> crazy Rust stuff stuff! We're here to help and I know this is all new to
> a lot of maintainers. I want people to be comfortable that we aren't
> just creating more maintenance burden for everyone else.

I can only speak for myself. I'm comfortable and sufficiently curious
about this particular flavour of crazy.

I don't think these abstractions are a huge burden as long as the folks
who implement them talk to the relevant maintainers so we don't end
up with Rust inflicted burdens or ill defined abstractions.

> That's also another conversation that we probably need to have, how do
> we handle maintainership of Rust abstractions? I think Miguel mentioned
> that ideally existing subsystem maintainers take over their bits of the
> Rust side too over time, but of course a lot of people aren't going to
> be comfortable with that if they don't have a lot of Rust experience
> yet... personally I'm happy to sign up as co-maintainer or supporter of
> the abstractions I contribute, or maybe we can just pool resources and
> have people interested in Rust agree to help support this stuff for
> every subsystem?

Having subsystem maintainer teams supplemented with a Rust wizard, is
probably the best option at the moment. Time will tell as always.

Thanks,

        tglx