From: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: "Miguel Ojeda" <ojeda@kernel.org>,
"Boqun Feng" <boqun@kernel.org>, "Gary Guo" <gary@garyguo.net>,
"Björn Roy Baron" <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com>,
"Benno Lossin" <lossin@kernel.org>,
"Andreas Hindborg" <a.hindborg@kernel.org>,
"Trevor Gross" <tmgross@umich.edu>,
"Danilo Krummrich" <dakr@kernel.org>,
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"Simon Horman" <horms@kernel.org>,
"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Arve Hjønnevåg" <arve@android.com>,
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"Carlos Llamas" <cmllamas@google.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Rust netlink support + use in Rust Binder
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2026 21:19:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aayWSuOM59uojtuG@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260307104131.4c1d0de5@kernel.org>
On Sat, Mar 07, 2026 at 10:41:31AM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:12:12 +0000 Alice Ryhl wrote:
> > The C Binder driver exposes messages over netlink when transactions
> > fail, so that a userpace daemon can respond to processes with many
> > failing transactions.
>
> Ugh, now I regret letting binder use Netlink. Should have seen this
> coming :/
To be honest, I'm not entirely happy with what Binder is using netlink
for either, but it is what it is.
> > This patch series adds netlink support from Rust, then implements an
> > equivalent API in Rust Binder.
> >
> > As Binder only uses broadcast messages, I did not add support for other
> > kinds of messages.
>
> Please no duplication of existing code in Rust.
The plan is certainly to get rid of C Binder, but it was unfortunately
not possible to get there without a transition period.
Alice
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-07 21:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-06 15:12 [PATCH 0/4] Rust netlink support + use in Rust Binder Alice Ryhl
2026-03-06 15:12 ` [PATCH 1/4] rust: netlink: add raw netlink abstraction Alice Ryhl
2026-03-07 15:43 ` Andrew Lunn
2026-03-07 21:28 ` Alice Ryhl
2026-03-08 14:48 ` Andrew Lunn
2026-03-08 15:23 ` Alice Ryhl
2026-03-08 17:24 ` Andrew Lunn
2026-03-09 8:38 ` Alice Ryhl
2026-03-06 15:12 ` [PATCH 2/4] ynl_gen: generate Rust files from yaml files Alice Ryhl
2026-03-07 18:41 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-03-07 21:30 ` Alice Ryhl
2026-03-06 15:12 ` [PATCH 3/4] rust_binder: add generated netlink.rs file Alice Ryhl
2026-03-16 12:07 ` Andreas Hindborg
2026-03-06 15:12 ` [PATCH 4/4] rust_binder: report netlink transactions Alice Ryhl
2026-03-07 16:56 ` Andrew Lunn
2026-03-07 21:19 ` Alice Ryhl
2026-03-07 18:41 ` [PATCH 0/4] Rust netlink support + use in Rust Binder Jakub Kicinski
2026-03-07 21:19 ` Alice Ryhl [this message]
2026-03-07 21:39 ` Andrew Lunn
2026-03-07 22:41 ` Alice Ryhl
2026-03-08 14:12 ` Andrew Lunn
2026-03-08 15:08 ` Alice Ryhl
2026-03-07 21:59 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-03-07 22:50 ` Alice Ryhl
2026-03-09 21:24 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-03-10 7:47 ` Alice Ryhl
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