[PATCH v2 21/33] rust: kbuild: remove "dummy parameter" workaround for `bindgen` < 0.71.1

Miguel Ojeda
2026-04-05T23:57:25Z

Until the version bump of `bindgen`, we needed to pass a dummy parameter
to avoid failing the `--version` call.

Thus remove it.

Reviewed-by: Tamir Duberstein <tamird@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
---
init/Kconfig | 7 +------
scripts/rust_is_available.sh | 8 +-------
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index f9fac458e4d4..d9b795f70a38 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -2211,12 +2211,7 @@ config RUSTC_VERSION_TEXT
config BINDGEN_VERSION_TEXT
string
depends on RUST
- # The dummy parameter `workaround-for-0.69.0` is required to support 0.69.0
- # (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/pull/2678) and 0.71.0
- # (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/pull/3040). It can be removed
- # when the minimum version is upgraded past the latter (0.69.1 and 0.71.1
- # both fixed the issue).
- default "$(shell,$(BINDGEN) --version workaround-for-0.69.0 2>/dev/null)"
+ default "$(shell,$(BINDGEN) --version 2>/dev/null)"

#
# Place an empty function call at each tracepoint site. Can be
diff --git a/scripts/rust_is_available.sh b/scripts/rust_is_available.sh
index cefc456c2503..551f1ebd0dcb 100755
--- a/scripts/rust_is_available.sh
+++ b/scripts/rust_is_available.sh
@@ -121,14 +121,8 @@ fi
# Check that the Rust bindings generator is suitable.
#
# Non-stable and distributions' versions may have a version suffix, e.g. `-dev`.
-#
-# The dummy parameter `workaround-for-0.69.0` is required to support 0.69.0
-# (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/pull/2678) and 0.71.0
-# (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/pull/3040). It can be removed when
-# the minimum version is upgraded past the latter (0.69.1 and 0.71.1 both fixed
-# the issue).
rust_bindings_generator_output=$( \
- LC_ALL=C "$BINDGEN" --version workaround-for-0.69.0 2>/dev/null
+ LC_ALL=C "$BINDGEN" --version 2>/dev/null
) || rust_bindings_generator_code=$?
if [ -n "$rust_bindings_generator_code" ]; then
echo >&2 "***"
--
2.53.0