Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] rust: WMI abstractions

[Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de>]

Am 22.12.25 um 22:30 schrieb Gladyshev Ilya:

> On 12/22/25 14:52, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
>> On Sun Dec 21, 2025 at 7:22 PM CET, Gladyshev Ilya wrote:
>>> Overview
>>> ========
>>> This patchset was developed some time ago out of pure curiosity
>>> about the R4L project, but I believe it may still be useful, so
>>> I decided to resume and post this work.
>>> The goal of my curiosity is to develop a simple WMI driver in Rust
>>> for unsupported laptop (I have some laying around) or, as a last
>>> resort, submit a rewrite of redmi-wmi as a sample driver -- if that
>>> would be acceptable.
>>
>> It depends on the subsystem maintainer, please also see [1].
>>
>> [1] https://rust-for-linux.com/rust-reference-drivers
>
> Yes, I Cc'ed platform-drivers and WMI maintainer in a hope to gather 
> their opinions.
>
I am OK with you using the redmi-wmi driver as a reference driver. TBH i am very interested in having rust
abstractions for the WMI subsystem, however i currently have no clue about the rust programing language itself :(
I plan to complete a rust tutorial in the future, but till then i can give you only limited feedback.

>>> Why RFC?
>>> ========
>>> 1. No real users for now
>>
>> Above it does sound like you are working on a new WMI driver as well?
> Well, I am planning to, but I can't guarantee any success at this 
> point) So "no real users" is honest answer for now
>
> But in a case if a) WMI subsystem is OK with reference drivers, and b) 
> I fail to write a new driver, I will submit redmi-wmi-rs as a 
> reference driver (since I can test it on my hardware).

Fine with me.

Thanks,
Armin Wolf