Re: [PATCH] gpu: nova-core: parse structs via zerocopy

[Danilo Krummrich]

On Mon Jun 22, 2026 at 10:26 PM CEST, Nicolás Antinori wrote:
> I did my work on rust-next [1] because drm-rust-next does not have the
> zerocopy crate present yet [2]. linux-next contains both zerocopy [3] 
> and the new users of transmute::FromBytes if I am not mistaken (BitToken,
> PciRomHeader, and PmuLookupTableEntry), so I can make the changes there.

The drm-rust tree is a bit special, as it remains open for contributions even
after it has been tagged for inclusion into Linus's (including throughout the
merge window). However, all changes staged in drm-rust-next are not going into
linux-next until -rc1 is released.

IOW, until -rc1 is released this may or may not resolve all conflicts with
drm-rust-next. Once -rc1 is released, it is backmerged into drm-rust-next and
drm-rust-next is picked up by linux-next again.

Usually all of this remains rather transparent to contributors, but you hit the
case of using a new feature introduced through another tree before drm-rust-next
caught up with Linus's tree (which will happen next Sunday).

Before drm-rust-next caught up, this patch can't be applied anyways, so all
good.

> I am fairly new to kernel development, I apologize for the mix-up.

No worries, you did nothing wrong; thanks for the contribution!

- Danilo