Re: [PATCH 14/33] rust: bump `bindgen` minimum supported version to 0.71.1 (Debian Trixie)

Gary Guo
2026-04-01T14:38:12Z

On Wed Apr 1, 2026 at 12:45 PM BST, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> As proposed in the past in e.g. LPC 2025 and the Maintainers Summit [1],
> we are going to follow Debian Stable's `bindgen` versions as our minimum
> supported version.
>
> Debian Trixie was released with `bindgen` 0.71.1, which it still uses
> to this day [2].
>
> Debian Trixie's release happened on 2025-08-09 [3], which means that a
> fair amount of time has passed since its release for kernel developers
> to upgrade.
>
> Thus bump the minimum to the new version.
>
> Then, in later commits, clean up most of the workarounds and other bits
> that this upgrade of the minimum allows us.
>
> Ubuntu 25.10 also has a recent enough `bindgen` [4] (even the already
> unsupported Ubuntu 25.04 had it), and they also provide versioned packages
> with `bindgen` 0.71.1 back to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS [5].
>
> Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/1050174/ [1]
> Link: https://packages.debian.org/trixie/bindgen [2]
> Link: https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/ [3]
> Link: https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=all&searchon=names&keywords=bindgen [4]
> Link: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rust-bindgen-0.71 [5]
> Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>

Reviewed-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>

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> Documentation/process/changes.rst | 2 +-
> scripts/min-tool-version.sh | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)