Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] net: phy: add Rust Rockchip PHY driver

Dragan Simic
2024-02-01T20:17:13Z

On 2024-02-01 19:23, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 01, 2024 at 07:07:00PM +0100, Christina Quast wrote:
>> This is the Rust implementation of drivers/net/phy/rockchip.c. The
>> features are equivalent. You can choose C or Rust version kernel
>> configuration.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Christina Quast <contact@christina-quast.de>
>
> Cool, but why? Is this going to happen for all phy drivers going
> forward? What's the end-game here, dropping all .c phy drivers that
> are in rust? Or having duplicates for all of them?

I'd also like to know what's the intended purpose of rewriting a mature
existing PHY driver in Rust?