From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Christian Schrefl <chrisi.schrefl@gmail.com>
Cc: "Miguel Ojeda" <ojeda@kernel.org>,
"Alex Gaynor" <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>,
"Boqun Feng" <boqun.feng@gmail.com>,
"Gary Guo" <gary@garyguo.net>,
"Björn Roy Baron" <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com>,
"Benno Lossin" <benno.lossin@proton.me>,
"Andreas Hindborg" <a.hindborg@kernel.org>,
"Alice Ryhl" <aliceryhl@google.com>,
"Trevor Gross" <tmgross@umich.edu>,
"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>, "Lee Jones" <lee@kernel.org>,
rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] rust: miscdevice: Add additional data to MiscDeviceRegistration
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 06:46:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2025012034-rope-canned-43da@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250119-b4-rust_miscdevice_registrationdata-v1-0-edbf18dde5fc@gmail.com>
On Sun, Jan 19, 2025 at 11:11:12PM +0100, Christian Schrefl wrote:
> This set is based on Greg's driver-core-next tree.
>
> Currently there is no good way to pass arbitrary data from the driver to
> a miscdevice or to share data between individual handles to a miscdevice in rust.
Why would you want to do this? A misc device instance should be "self
contained" with the needed stuff to make it work.
Do you have an example of where this is needed as I can't figure out the
goal here, sorry.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-01-20 5:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-01-19 22:11 [PATCH 0/3] rust: miscdevice: Add additional data to MiscDeviceRegistration Christian Schrefl
2025-01-19 22:11 ` [PATCH 1/3] rust: add Aliased type Christian Schrefl
2025-01-19 23:04 ` Miguel Ojeda
2025-01-20 0:27 ` Christian Schrefl
2025-01-20 17:24 ` Boqun Feng
2025-01-23 10:21 ` Christian Schrefl
2025-01-23 17:56 ` Boqun Feng
2025-01-23 18:04 ` Christian Schrefl
2025-01-23 18:25 ` Boqun Feng
2025-01-23 20:18 ` Christian Schrefl
2025-01-23 20:24 ` Boqun Feng
2025-01-23 20:27 ` Christian Schrefl
2025-01-19 22:11 ` [PATCH 2/3] rust: miscdevice: Add additional data to MiscDeviceRegistration Christian Schrefl
2025-01-20 0:27 ` Christian Schrefl
2025-01-21 10:53 ` kernel test robot
2025-01-22 9:28 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2025-01-22 10:11 ` Alice Ryhl
2025-01-22 12:40 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2025-01-22 13:06 ` Alice Ryhl
2025-01-23 10:02 ` Christian Schrefl
2025-01-23 15:52 ` Christian Schrefl
2025-01-23 16:00 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2025-01-23 16:04 ` Christian Schrefl
2025-01-23 23:26 ` Christian Schrefl
2025-01-27 10:27 ` Alice Ryhl
2025-01-27 13:27 ` Christian Schrefl
2025-01-27 13:33 ` Alice Ryhl
2025-01-27 13:35 ` Christian Schrefl
2025-01-27 13:42 ` Miguel Ojeda
2025-01-19 22:11 ` [PATCH 3/3] rust: miscdevice: adjust the rust_misc_device sample to use RegistrationData Christian Schrefl
2025-01-21 15:40 ` Alice Ryhl
2025-01-23 17:57 ` Christian Schrefl
2025-01-24 7:29 ` Alice Ryhl
2025-01-24 8:06 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2025-01-24 9:42 ` Alice Ryhl
2025-01-24 10:34 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2025-01-24 10:39 ` Alice Ryhl
2025-01-24 11:22 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2025-01-24 11:37 ` Alice Ryhl
2025-01-24 11:42 ` Christian Schrefl
2025-01-20 5:46 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2025-01-21 10:29 ` [PATCH 0/3] rust: miscdevice: Add additional data to MiscDeviceRegistration Christian Schrefl
2025-01-22 9:22 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=2025012034-rope-canned-43da@gregkh \
--to=gregkh@linuxfoundation.org \
--cc=a.hindborg@kernel.org \
--cc=alex.gaynor@gmail.com \
--cc=aliceryhl@google.com \
--cc=arnd@arndb.de \
--cc=benno.lossin@proton.me \
--cc=bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com \
--cc=boqun.feng@gmail.com \
--cc=chrisi.schrefl@gmail.com \
--cc=gary@garyguo.net \
--cc=lee@kernel.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=ojeda@kernel.org \
--cc=rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=tmgross@umich.edu \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox