Re: Rust kernel policy

Jarkko Sakkinen
2025-02-19T11:32:42Z

On Tue, 2025-02-18 at 23:05 -0800, Boqun Feng wrote:
> In my opinion, about testing, code style check, commit log, etc. Rust
> patches should be the same as C patches, at least during my reviews,
> I
> treat both the same. Therefore I wasn't clear about why you want
> additional information about Rust patch only, or what you exactly
> proposed to add into kernel documentation for Rust patch.
>
> The policy documentation in this email clarifies some higher level
> stuffs than patch submission and development, such as "How is Rust
> introduced in a subsystem", this is for developers' information maybe
> even before development work. And I agree with Miguel, if we want
> this
> information in-tree, we can certainly do that.
>
> Hope this can answer your question?

Hey, it definitely does for the moment, thank you.

I'm just poking ice with a stick, and not even touching ground yet,
given that I was only able to test compilation ;-)

BR, Jarkko