Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] rust: usb: add usb request block abstractions and a user

[Colin Braun <colinbrauncl@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2026 at 11:35:50PM -0300, Daniel Almeida wrote:
> I’m cc’ing my colleague Nicolas. He was at the media summit this year
> discussing a topic somewhat related to Rust.
> 
> IIUC, the consensus is unfavorable for Rust media drivers at the moment. They
> are waiting for more progress on gcc-rs before allowing it, as clang does not
> fit some of their infrastructure.

This is good to know, thanks for mentioning this. I will table my work
on the media driver for now, though I might continue working on some of
it privately until gcc-rs has progressed enough.

> This doesn't have to discourage you from this work, though. Last I spoke to
> Greg, I think he was OK with having enough infrastructure to build a Rust
> version of usb-skeleton.c. You could perhaps work on that? I never really found
> the time to, but I can chime in with reviews. It's always nice to onboard new people :)

I would definitely be interested in picking up this work.

Unless my first 3 patches seem to be heading in the wrong direction,
I will integrate the initial and any coming feedback here, as well as
some of the concerns the Sashiko AI bot emailed me. I'll include an
attempt at the rust version of usb-skeleton as well.

I imagine it makes sense to strip out functions usb-skeleton doesn't use,
so I will remove those in my next revision.

Thanks,
Colin