Re: [PATCH v10 5/8] rust: clist: Add support to interface with C linked lists

[Joel Fernandes]

On 2/25/2026 2:48 PM, Boqun Feng wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2026 at 05:48:37PM +0100, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
>> On Fri Feb 20, 2026 at 2:09 AM CET, Gary Guo wrote:
>>> On 2026-02-19 16:24, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
>>>> I feel like it makes a bit more sense to have an entry for the entire class of
>>>> "RUST [FFI]" infrastructure.
>>>
>>> I don't think so. Most of the kernel crate is doing FFI. We have a `ffi` crate
>>> defining FFI types, we have `CStr`/`CString` which in Rust std is inside `std::ffi`,
>>> etc.
>>
>> The idea is not that everything that somehow has an FFI interface falls under
>> this category, as this would indeed be the majority.
>>
>> The idea is rather everything that is specifically designed as a helper to
>> implement FFI interactions. (Given that maybe just "RUST [FFI HELPER]"?)
>>
> 
> I feel like you may want to call it "interop" then, because it's "Rust
> doing something with interoperation on C data structure". If I
> understand you correctly, the category you referred here is the area
> that we could not simply call an FFI function to get the functionality
> from C side, but rather we need to make sure that we are interpret C
> data structure correctly to work with C side.

Boqun has a point here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_interoperability

thanks,

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Joel Fernandes