Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] rust: enable `clippy::as_underscore` lint

Tamir Duberstein
2025-03-14T12:27:27Z

On Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me> wrote:
>
> On Thu Mar 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM CET, Tamir Duberstein wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 10:11 AM Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> With doing `allow(clippy::incompatible_msrv)`, I meant doing that
> >> globally, not having a module to re-export the functions :)
> >
> > Yeah, but I think that's too big a hammer. It's a useful warning, and
> > it doesn't accept per-item configuration.
>
> Hmm, I don't think it's as useful. We're going to be using more unstable
> features until we eventually bump the minimum version when we can
> disable `RUSTC_BOOTSTRAP=1`. From that point onwards, it will be very
> useful, but before that I don't think that it matters too much. Maybe
> the others disagree.

I'd rather keep this narrowly scoped for now -- putting the genie back
in the bottle later is usually harder.

> > Why don't we want host programs to have the same warnings applied? Why
> > don't we want it for all those other crates?
>
> I have never looked at the rust hostprogs before, so I'm missing some
> context here.
>
> I didn't enable them, because they are currently being compiled without
> any unstable features and I thought we might want to keep that. (though
> I don't really see a reason not to compile them with unstable features
> that we also use for the kernel crate)
>
> > I'd expect we want uniform diagnostics settings throughout which is
> > why these things are in the Makefile rather than in individual crates
> > in the first place.
> >
> > Your patch sidesteps the problems I'm having by not applying these
> > lints to host crates, but I think we should.
>
> We're probably working on some stuff that Miguel's new build system will
> do entirely differently. So I wouldn't worry too much about getting it
> perfect, as it will be removed in a couple cycles.

I got it working, but it's pretty messy. Let's discuss on v3.