Re: [PATCH] rust: kbuild: set `bindgen`'s Rust target version

[Alice Ryhl]

On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 10:42 AM Miguel Ojeda
<miguel.ojeda.sandonis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 10:08 AM Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Just to double-check, the problem is that bindgen currently doesn't
> > get any information about the rustc we're using, so it may generate
> > code invalid on the rustc we are actually using?
>
> Exactly: it doesn't at the moment, but eventually a future release could.
>
> Of course, people using the latest stable `rustc` would likely never
> see an issue. But there may be people e.g. building `bindgen` on their
> own, and thus likely picking the latest version, while using an older
> Rust toolchain from their distribution instead of, say, `rustup`.

Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@xxxxxxxxxx>

Sounds like this might need a backport to 6.12, to prevent issues
appearing on the LTS in the future?

Alice