Re: [PATCH v9 01/13] rust: hrtimer: introduce hrtimer support

[Miguel Ojeda]

On Mon, Feb 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Why do we need this new kconfig?

I suspect it is to provide flexibility (i.e. to avoid building
everything if there are no users of the abstraction) and/or to limit
the set of configs that may be affected by a breaking change on the C
side -- Andreas and I discussed it the other day. The description of
the issue has some lines, but perhaps the commit message could
clarify.

We have a similar one already, i.e. a "Rust-only" config, in
`CONFIG_RUST_FW_LOADER_ABSTRACTIONS`.

Since this one is default "y", it may still affect unrelated
subsystems that just enable `RUST=y`, though.

(I guess we could consider `select`ing from end users. But they cannot
be hidden symbols, because that limits the control too much (e.g.
someone may want to just build the abstraction), and in general they
may have dependencies, so it may not be a good idea.)

Cheers,
Miguel