Re: Fwd: Adding crates

[Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 9:49 AM Chris Suter <chris@sutes.me> wrote:
>
> I'm interested in quite a few crates but the first and perhaps most
> significant would be futures. I'm not necessarily looking for a
> "generic" solution at this point, any solution would do — just enough
> to help me make a little progress and then maybe I could contribute
> back later. I can probably figure it out myself, but I was hoping to
> save some time.

If you are just looking to experiment with some third-party crates,
then as mentioned in the other thread, what you could do is copy and
adapt the code. For instance, if the crates you need do not use Cargo
build scripts, this may be as simple as copying the sources of the
Rust modules into your kernel module (which is a crate), so that you
do not need to deal with build systems.

But if you are looking to do something else, then please note there is
no plan to add support for building/linking against third-party
crates. This is why we ask what crates would be useful and why -- so
that we can consider adding similar facilities to the kernel (possibly
importing those third-party crates).

Cheers,
Miguel