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Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2025 12:52:44 +0100
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] rust: WMI abstractions
Cc: "foxido @ foxido . dev-cc= Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>, "Len
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To: "Gladyshev Ilya" <foxido@foxido.dev>
From: "Danilo Krummrich" <dakr@kernel.org>
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On Sun Dec 21, 2025 at 7:22 PM CET, Gladyshev Ilya wrote:
> Overview
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> This patchset was developed some time ago out of pure curiosity
> about the R4L project, but I believe it may still be useful, so
> I decided to resume and post this work.
> The goal of my curiosity is to develop a simple WMI driver in Rust
> for unsupported laptop (I have some laying around) or, as a last
> resort, submit a rewrite of redmi-wmi as a sample driver -- if that
> would be acceptable.

It depends on the subsystem maintainer, please also see [1].

[1] https://rust-for-linux.com/rust-reference-drivers

> Why RFC?
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> 1. No real users for now

Above it does sound like you are working on a new WMI driver as well?