Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add drm-rust tree for Rust DRM drivers and infrastructure

["Alexandre Courbot" <acourbot@nvidia.com>]

On Tue Sep 2, 2025 at 5:26 AM JST, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> Multiple DRM Rust drivers (e.g. nova-core, nova-drm, Tyr, rvkms) are in
> development, with at least Nova and (soon) Tyr already upstream. Having a
> shared tree will ease and accelerate development, since all drivers can
> consume new infrastructure in the same release cycle.
>
> This includes infrastructure shared with other subsystem trees (e.g. Rust
> or driver-core). By consolidating in drm-rust, we avoid adding extra
> burden to drm-misc maintainers, e.g. dealing with cross-tree topic
> branches.
>
> The drm-misc tree is not a good fit for this stage of development, since
> its documented scope is small drivers with occasional large series.
>
> Rust drivers in development upstream, however, regularly involve large
> patch series, new infrastructure, and shared topic branches, which may
> not align well with drm-misc at this stage.
>
> The drm-rust tree may not be a permanent solution. Once the core Rust,
> DRM, and KMS infrastructure have stabilized, drivers and infrastructure
> changes are expected to transition into drm-misc or standalone driver
> trees respectively. Until then, drm-rust provides a dedicated place to
> coordinate development without disrupting existing workflows too much.
>
> Cc: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
> Cc: Simona Vetter <simona@ffwll.ch>
> Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>
> Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
> Cc: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
> Cc: Daniel Almeida <daniel.almeida@collabora.com>
> Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>

Acked-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>