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

Miguel Ojeda
2026-04-01T11:48:52Z

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

diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
index 474594bd4831..84156d031365 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ you probably needn't concern yourself with pcmciautils.
GNU C 8.1 gcc --version
Clang/LLVM (optional) 15.0.0 clang --version
Rust (optional) 1.85.0 rustc --version
-bindgen (optional) 0.65.1 bindgen --version
+bindgen (optional) 0.71.1 bindgen --version
GNU make 4.0 make --version
bash 4.2 bash --version
binutils 2.30 ld -v
diff --git a/scripts/min-tool-version.sh b/scripts/min-tool-version.sh
index a270ec761f64..b96ec2d379b6 100755
--- a/scripts/min-tool-version.sh
+++ b/scripts/min-tool-version.sh
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ rustc)
echo 1.85.0
;;
bindgen)
- echo 0.65.1
+ echo 0.71.1
;;
*)
echo "$1: unknown tool" >&2
--
2.53.0