Re: [PATCH 20/22] rust: pin-init: add miscellaneous files from the user-space version

[Benno Lossin]

On Wed Mar 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM CET, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> But really, if you are already going to sync changes with automated
>> tools, it should be simple enough to have a list of file that are
>> excluded from user space to kernel syncs.
>
> As far as I understand, Benno already excludes some files -- so extra
> files could also be excluded easily.
>
> Not sure about these though, e.g. they could help someone realize they
> need to contribute/develop it elsewhere. On the other hand, we could
> have a custom one in the kernel instead, explaining just that.

CONTRIBUTING.md is also referenced by the MAINTAINERS entry in the `P:`
field. For README.md, I don't mind removing it, as that still keeps the
rules of which files should be synchronized simple (see the other
thread). But I agree with Miguel that it is beneficial to keep in order
to show that it is a vendored library.

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Cheers,
Benno