From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: "Smith, Cameron T" <cameron.smith@pnnl.gov>
Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: MAC Privacy Protection Protocol Driver Announcement
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:38:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261023123833.406b1d4f@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B6D98237-9AD5-479C-AC69-4D3F51C8D0A2@pnnl.gov>
On Thu, 22 Oct 2026 21:11:33 +0000 Smith, Cameron T wrote:
> I'm working on a Rust network driver for MAC Privacy Protection
> protocol (IEEE 802.1AEdk). There are a number of Rust abstractions
> within the `net` subsystem which need to be added to make this
> possible. These abstractions will need to be in place before my
> driver can be upstreamed, but will also be helpful for anyone else
> implementing network drivers in Rust.
I'm assuming you're writing it using an LLM, so I'd strongly prefer
if you just wrote it in C instead of adding a huge additional work
for maintainers of thinking thru Rust abstractions for datapath
drivers while we are overloaded with all the LLM fixes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-23 19:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-22 21:11 MAC Privacy Protection Protocol Driver Announcement Smith, Cameron T
2026-10-23 19:38 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
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2026-10-21 19:10 ` Andrew Lunn
2026-10-22 22:55 ` Smith, Cameron T
2026-10-23 1:00 ` Andrew Lunn
2026-10-26 22:54 ` Smith, Cameron T
2026-10-27 13:15 ` Andrew Lunn
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