From: "Danilo Krummrich" <dakr@kernel.org>
To: "John Hubbard" <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: "Gary Guo" <gary@garyguo.net>,
"Alexandre Courbot" <acourbot@nvidia.com>,
"Alice Ryhl" <aliceryhl@google.com>,
"Daniel Almeida" <daniel.almeida@collabora.com>,
"Miguel Ojeda" <ojeda@kernel.org>,
"Björn Roy Baron" <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com>,
"Benno Lossin" <lossin@kernel.org>,
"Andreas Hindborg" <a.hindborg@kernel.org>,
"Trevor Gross" <tmgross@umich.edu>,
"Boqun Feng" <boqun@kernel.org>,
"Yury Norov" <yury.norov@gmail.com>,
"Alistair Popple" <apopple@nvidia.com>,
"Joel Fernandes" <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>,
"Timur Tabi" <ttabi@nvidia.com>, "Edwin Peer" <epeer@nvidia.com>,
"Eliot Courtney" <ecourtney@nvidia.com>,
"Dirk Behme" <dirk.behme@de.bosch.com>,
"Steven Price" <steven.price@arm.com>,
rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 05/10] rust: io: add IoLoc and IoWrite types
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:53:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DGU9EMTDIHKZ.4L5JDE53Y76J@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5e281d9c-20e0-47e1-8635-e062f18d47ff@nvidia.com>
On Wed Mar 4, 2026 at 8:19 PM CET, John Hubbard wrote:
> I also want to register (haha) a strong yet unexplainable concern about
> this. Registers as types is something I've never seen attempted, it feels
> strange and unnecessary, and just worries me.
Do you want to go back to lots of defines, manual masking and shifts rather than
having a single obvious definition of a register that generates a type with
getters and setters? Needless to say that the former is much more error prone
and less readable. :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-04 19:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-24 14:21 [PATCH v7 00/10] rust: add `register!` macro Alexandre Courbot
2026-02-24 14:21 ` [PATCH v7 01/10] rust: enable the `generic_arg_infer` feature Alexandre Courbot
2026-02-24 14:21 ` [PATCH v7 02/10] rust: num: add `shr` and `shl` methods to `Bounded` Alexandre Courbot
2026-02-24 14:21 ` [PATCH v7 03/10] rust: num: add `into_bool` method " Alexandre Courbot
2026-02-24 14:21 ` [PATCH v7 04/10] rust: num: make Bounded::get const Alexandre Courbot
2026-02-27 12:33 ` Gary Guo
2026-02-24 14:21 ` [PATCH v7 05/10] rust: io: add IoLoc and IoWrite types Alexandre Courbot
2026-02-27 18:02 ` Gary Guo
2026-02-27 18:16 ` Danilo Krummrich
2026-02-28 0:33 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-03-01 15:11 ` Gary Guo
2026-03-02 1:44 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-03-02 12:53 ` Gary Guo
2026-03-02 13:12 ` Danilo Krummrich
2026-03-02 13:39 ` Gary Guo
2026-03-03 8:14 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-03-03 8:31 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-03-03 14:55 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-03-03 15:05 ` Gary Guo
2026-03-04 16:18 ` Danilo Krummrich
2026-03-04 18:39 ` Gary Guo
2026-03-04 18:58 ` Gary Guo
2026-03-04 19:19 ` John Hubbard
2026-03-04 19:53 ` Danilo Krummrich [this message]
2026-03-04 19:57 ` John Hubbard
2026-03-04 20:05 ` Gary Guo
2026-03-04 19:38 ` Danilo Krummrich
2026-03-04 19:48 ` Gary Guo
2026-03-04 20:37 ` Danilo Krummrich
2026-03-04 21:13 ` Gary Guo
2026-03-04 21:38 ` Danilo Krummrich
2026-03-04 21:42 ` Danilo Krummrich
2026-03-04 22:15 ` Gary Guo
2026-03-04 22:22 ` Danilo Krummrich
2026-03-06 5:37 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-03-06 7:47 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-03-06 10:42 ` Gary Guo
2026-03-06 11:10 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-03-06 11:35 ` Gary Guo
2026-03-06 12:50 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-03-06 13:20 ` Gary Guo
2026-03-06 14:32 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-03-06 14:52 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-03-06 15:10 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-03-06 15:35 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-03-06 15:35 ` Gary Guo
2026-03-07 0:05 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-03-07 21:10 ` Gary Guo
2026-03-07 21:40 ` Danilo Krummrich
2026-03-08 11:43 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-03-08 11:35 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-03-04 18:53 ` Gary Guo
2026-03-04 22:19 ` Gary Guo
2026-03-05 11:02 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-02-24 14:21 ` [PATCH v7 06/10] rust: io: use generic read/write accessors for primitive accesses Alexandre Courbot
2026-02-27 18:04 ` Gary Guo
2026-02-24 14:21 ` [PATCH v7 07/10] rust: io: add `register!` macro Alexandre Courbot
2026-02-24 14:21 ` [PATCH v7 08/10] sample: rust: pci: use " Alexandre Courbot
2026-02-24 14:21 ` [PATCH FOR REFERENCE v7 09/10] gpu: nova-core: use the kernel " Alexandre Courbot
2026-02-24 14:21 ` [PATCH v7 10/10] RFC: rust: io: allow fixed register values directly in `write` Alexandre Courbot
2026-02-25 11:58 ` [PATCH v7 00/10] rust: add `register!` macro Dirk Behme
2026-02-25 13:50 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-02-26 12:01 ` Dirk Behme
2026-02-27 23:30 ` Alexandre Courbot
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