From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 36DDE274659; Mon, 10 Nov 2025 17:04:54 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1762794295; cv=none; b=VKDvCqr5qCddFhr7kcbioqlHttvQPeo1X70tcsYEonDQw2StE0gTLfgSe7Kz6TutJlS5kQM7A+Nd1JJfh+PXa3uXi0S2efH89FHqiHK2Pj1X2D1x3O8ErLnoSRKr8XIbYUyY8Qoxk998mG5ocT0D6936p3wQoRjAWwl5/9+oVII= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1762794295; c=relaxed/simple; bh=vDbEes5fnXSUpfBVBMEFezccxAYID8VwKrFPQtJa5Ps=; h=Mime-Version:Content-Type:Date:Message-Id:Subject:From:To:Cc: References:In-Reply-To; b=uAvu3v/IIkr630GJLIGDBQUdNO/2MV9jdNZo+vKIZGf2XdoTJFO5BRFsmVS4GWbfCXaEbwwipRDdUgAibm2x5Nf0X2F4277/eSCmxEYWAeWd67eff+m2q76x+zG8aFTeVBCx2sW0UtUQvEzwEWhMODSZ+rWzQmEmBL/ZsK5rhU4= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=othVWEOM; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="othVWEOM" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 15521C16AAE; Mon, 10 Nov 2025 17:04:50 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1762794294; bh=vDbEes5fnXSUpfBVBMEFezccxAYID8VwKrFPQtJa5Ps=; h=Date:Subject:From:To:Cc:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=othVWEOMeElHMVGqML27gIxzOsNysNlEkntnu4yuonoPzOBzDE+LLsmOhaYxha/kf k2t0Pmzuwmar1hY8fcSaK3+ywpp/Pyzu9d7oa7Fpsvsbn/4EWXtpMQ9fhwOgU/S7dW GDcBhuWSseg36wnTtZ5mR6aEKMxWEhN6p3wK+efNRNTo0X+t/G7djTYATv3115MwjS HUeVbs6k1vvSLm2w952UQfcwhYS+D+UehC4/GIpeYOpXdZAYK6FzdzBeiB+LYFxwGn F6+/HeWlhII44tEqNQdcI0vlmtVmZJReH231Oj/urLr8CJYu4IVtbLEE96bZXCMPcj DHmY8LvjLo7Fg== Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 18:04:48 +0100 Message-Id: Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] `syn` support From: "Benno Lossin" To: "Miguel Ojeda" , "Jonathan Corbet" Cc: "Miguel Ojeda" , "Alex Gaynor" , "Nathan Chancellor" , "Nicolas Schier" , "Boqun Feng" , "Gary Guo" , =?utf-8?q?Bj=C3=B6rn_Roy_Baron?= , "Andreas Hindborg" , "Alice Ryhl" , "Trevor Gross" , "Danilo Krummrich" , , , , X-Mailer: aerc 0.21.0 References: <20251110095025.1475896-1-ojeda@kernel.org> <874ir1zxng.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> In-Reply-To: On Mon Nov 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM CET, Miguel Ojeda wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 4:59=E2=80=AFPM Jonathan Corbet = wrote: >> >> Just in case I'm not the only ignorant person who didn't immediately >> know what "syn" is and why we might want 57,000 lines of it in the >> kernel... :) > > Thanks -- I will add something like that. > > It has been such a long and recurrent topic in our discussions that I > guess I was writing from inside the Rust for Linux's bubble. > > Just to give a bit more context, it is the most downloaded Rust crate > (according to crates.io). It (or something like it) is essentially a > necessity for writing complex macros without too much pain. It also is used by the Rust compiler itself for some proc-macros of their own. Cheers, Benno