Re: [GIT PULL] Rust for 6.12

[Miguel Ojeda]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2024 at 7:46 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> That gets it building for me on x86-64, at least. But at the
> maintainer summit I think you said MODVERSIONS support is being worked
> on too, no?

Yeah:

    https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/20240923181846.549877-22-samitolvanen@xxxxxxxxxx/
    https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/20240924212024.540574-1-mmaurer@xxxxxxxxxx/

> On my arm64 box, Rust support is still disabled due to
> RUSTC_SUPPORTS_ARM64 not being true (which in turn seems to be due to
> SHADOW_CALL_STACK support, and that needs rust 18.2 which I don't
> have).

Yeah, Rust 1.82 is not released yet, it will be on 2024-10-17, i.e.
about 3 weeks, and then Fedora should have it soon after (~some days,
I think).

> Anyway, just a heads up that I think we'll have more "unintentional"
> Rust build test coverage this way.

That is great, thanks. I currently do defconfig + a few bits and
variations to cover the Rust code we have (to keep the CI time down)
-- I will start doing allmodconfigs for the next cycles then.

Cheers,
Miguel