Re: [PATCH 0/4] Auxiliary bus Rust abstractions

From: Danilo Krummrich
Date: Wed Mar 12 2025 - 16:10:00 EST


On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 08:14:24AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 01:19:06AM +0100, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> > This series adds Rust abstractions for the auxiliary bus.
> >
> > It implements the required abstractions to write auxiliary drivers and create
> > auxiliary device registrations. A driver sample illustrates how the
> > corresponding abstractions work.
> >
> > The auxiliary abstractions are required for the Nova driver project, in order to
> > connect nova-core with the nova-drm driver.
>
> Nice!
>
> > This patch series depends on [1] (taken through the nova tree for v6.15); a
> > branch containing the patches, including the dependency can be found in [2].
> >
> > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/20250306222336.23482-2-dakr@xxxxxxxxxx/
> > [2] https://web.git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dakr/linux.git/log/?h=rust/auxiliary
>
> Do you want this to wait until that lands in 6.15-rc1 or do you want to
> take this now through the nova tree? Either is fine with me.

Thanks! Let's wait for things to land in Linus' tree and give people some time
to review.

I will also send a v2 soon, fixing up a soundness issue I'm also working on
a fix for platform and PCI.