Re: Rust kernel policy

Geert Uytterhoeven
2025-02-19T13:26:13Z

Hi Jarkko,

On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 at 12:39, Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2025-02-19 at 16:35 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> > On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 at 16:20, Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
> > wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2025-02-18 at 13:22 -0800, Boqun Feng wrote:
> > > > FWIW, usually Rust code has doc tests allowing you to run it with
> > > > kunit,
> > > > see:
> > > >
> > > > https://docs.kernel.org/rust/testing.html
> > >
> > > I know this document and this was what I used to compile DMA
> > > patches.
> > > Then I ended up into "no test, no go" state :-)
> > >
> > > I put this is way. If that is enough, or perhaps combined with
> > > submitting-patches.rst, why this email thread exists?
> >
> > There is users for the DMA stuff (now there should be some more
> > tests), the problem is posting the users involves all the precursor
> > patches for a bunch of other subsystems,
> >
> > There's no nice way to get this all bootstrapped, two methods are:
> >
> > a) posting complete series crossing subsystems, people get pissed off
> > and won't review because it's too much
> > b) posting series for review that don't have a full user in the
> > series, people get pissed off because of lack of users.
> >
> > We are mostly moving forward with (b) initially, this gets rust folks
> > to give reviews and point out any badly thought out rust code, and
> > give others some ideas for what the code looks like and that it
> > exists
> > so others don't reinvent the wheel.
> >
> > Maybe we can add more rust tests to that particular patch series? but
> > this is the wrong thread to discuss it, so maybe ask on that thread
> > rather on this generic thread.
>
> Here's one way to do it:
>
> 1. Send the patch set as it is.

You mean the series from b) above, right?
(To be repeated for each subsystem for which you have such a series).

> 2. Point out to Git tree with branch containing the patches + patches
> for e.g. driver (hopefully for something that QEMU is able to emulate)
> and other stuff/shenanigans that allows to test them.

Exactly.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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