From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.remote-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal: i=1; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc20261015; a=rsa-sha256; cv=none; t=1792784314; b=dJvNG4+VVCzV6gPfrKU6YM13Hq7h7LbLI/+b1odnoan0D4M1Zs/67hlXHVs2+aUeEqsr /Cvz3VcQuaacgGO9IicfH8g5r2cc4O52tdKBu8kyV6ay4Q2kXWHC6fScRGmc9+p9j/Y6Y Ut5K/13s0mcFX4U+NIyoCyF2p5x4j0YxmjTifvRrdUwF2pFTMrZCI0bk3Rrr1KUavllAI CFJfbG7VMw6bgyXJqYf6jr+zKTALvUtcNkZLfOD915D2xaQldWUDYFa0dX1Svi6GRkDev kzZDSK71fXQV6bQTYxomzvamYfh3pMqL0+SC3A/NZk1oT4EAMfEq1lyRGXR9g0vyjQQ== ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc20261015; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; t=1792784314; h=Received:DKIM-Signature:Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID: In-Reply-To:References:MIME-Version:Content-Type: Content-Transfer-Encoding; bh=Cx7qmSkhV/UaCQ88PBaIvcJ8zQfIU4lsFxoG7lrd30Y=; b=v7m7XlrK61QhiZP9vevPxhj8pMp02CvvgqZfSb4FZb+/1oKKV9TtyZC1CLVWoUXvaRtJ lnWVk/8qrA2RLOoBxU0baWh0+eiQJQAa7ncitz+zp8UXBt/BwK414oCxBTnVg1HKAhGdo ZfM5yiNoO5FLuOoSiAz3VSR51HpS9+Yg55nYQuLPo2nYS1dDhuemRY5o6EcuL/br4Iq7X V2YgfgRsFJFEYn8Evfm62GxzaEernrrXXZ93ls8E+ltJfZifH1S8PJYPz4oAlYDM8s11b 0WHscMChAHnN0P9V7goMhsYKaSYvLuGTsw6DM61Qm2xC6oa5ZQxSg1niiIZ3rn+apfA== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.a=rsa-sha256 header.s=k20260515 header.b=WuzRSTMm; arc=none smtp.remote-ip=100.103.45.18 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (quasi.space.kernel.org [100.103.45.18]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature ECDSA (prime256v1)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EB9B0606A323 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 2026 19:38:33 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key, unprotected) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.a=rsa-sha256 header.s=k20260515 header.b=WuzRSTMm Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B473B1F031E1; Fri, 23 Oct 2026 19:38:33 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kernel.org; s=k20260515; t=1792784313; bh=Cx7qmSkhV/UaCQ88PBaIvcJ8zQfIU4lsFxoG7lrd30Y=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References; b=WuzRSTMmbIP80hAYK4VgqnShwVDZoDEDv95N08kBha58+b8gbw2Bg92eStCeWK+D7 0LwqAQkG8SRJnK4A/rfLREsj4N4EIqd6ryHslN/FwSgdvT5IyzxpW+NL7LLXFGXfL4 l9sNzSeNVSePYaFX56SWqdr7YwWCip2AMLmZAj7p+VXELP3B7qL+TCMFUmaCbIQltK YT9IageXtGvF9BvDo2LZx+1Q5hNJYREsufokNUquoUnOutQIxkgnJoBMxlHbxmGQ9S ngmwtCYliTPTcRmXS5HlmD9m9NxDoWpeWAg2nAcHfYJivGTmV7PtZ/NHCqjMuTlgaz pHPN3AzTDNsjw== Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:38:33 -0700 From: Jakub Kicinski To: "Smith, Cameron T" Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: MAC Privacy Protection Protocol Driver Announcement Message-ID: <20261023123833.406b1d4f@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Owner: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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.