Re: [ANN] Request for Topics and registration for a Media Summit September 16th

[Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>]

Hi Tomasz,

On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 01:12:29PM +0900, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 1:19 AM Daniel Almeida wrote:
> >
> > Hi Hans, all,
> >
> > I’d like to attend in person and discuss the use of Rust in the subsystem, especially in light of [0] and [1].
> >
> > Please note that these are new submissions that are unrelated with what was discussed last year.
> >
> > 30 minutes will do.
> >
> > [0] https://lwn.net/ml/linux-media/20240227215146.46487-1-daniel.almeida@collabora.com/
> > [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/970565
> 
> Somewhat related to the topic: I see potential for a quite big
> redesign of the videobuf2 framework going forward and recently with
> more Rust adoption I'm starting to think it could benefit from being
> implemented in Rust, since we would have to rewrite it quite a bit
> anyway. Especially since it's a part of the subsystem that has to deal
> with memory management, object lifetime and asynchronousness quite a
> lot and we had a history of issues there. So it could be interesting
> to hear everyone's thoughts.

More than the language choice, what picked my interest here is why you
htink vb2 should be rewritten. Do you have a high-level overview
document that explains the rationale and what you think the new vb2
should look like ?

> That said, I wouldn't be able to travel this time unfortunately, so it
> would be nice if we could arrange this topic in a time slot friendly
> for remote attendance from Japan. Also +Hidenori Kobayashi from my
> team who would also be interested in joining remotely.

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart