Re: [PATCH v3 00/16] Device / Driver PCI / Platform Rust abstractions

[Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2024 at 07:13:37AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 11:31:37PM +0200, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> > This patch series implements the necessary Rust abstractions to implement
> > device drivers in Rust.
> > 
> > This includes some basic generalizations for driver registration, handling of ID
> > tables, MMIO operations and device resource handling.
> > 
> > Those generalizations are used to implement device driver support for two
> > busses, the PCI and platfrom bus (with OF IDs) in order to provide some evidence
> > that the generalizations work as intended.
> > 
> > The patch series also includes two patches adding two driver samples, one PCI
> > driver and one platform driver.
> > 
> > The PCI bits are motivated by the Nova driver project [1], but are used by at
> > least one more OOT driver (rnvme [2]).
> > 
> > The platform bits, besides adding some more evidence to the base abstractions,
> > are required by a few more OOT drivers aiming at going upstream, i.e. rvkms [3],
> > cpufreq-dt [4], asahi [5] and the i2c work from Fabien [6].
> > 
> > The patches of this series can also be [7], [8] and [9].
> 
> Nice!
> 
> Thanks for redoing this, at first glance it's much better.  It will be a
> few days before I can dive into this, It's conference season and the
> travel is rough, so be patient but I will get to this...

No worries, I'll be also a bit less responsive than usual in the next weeks.

> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
>