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From: "Eliot Courtney" <ecourtney@nvidia.com>
To: "John Hubbard" <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
	"Alexandre Courbot" <acourbot@nvidia.com>,
	"Joel Fernandes" <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>,
	"Yury Norov" <yury.norov@gmail.com>,
	"Miguel Ojeda" <ojeda@kernel.org>,
	"Boqun Feng" <boqun@kernel.org>, "Gary Guo" <gary@garyguo.net>,
	"Björn Roy Baron" <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com>,
	"Benno Lossin" <lossin@kernel.org>,
	"Andreas Hindborg" <a.hindborg@kernel.org>,
	"Alice Ryhl" <aliceryhl@google.com>,
	"Trevor Gross" <tmgross@umich.edu>,
	"Danilo Krummrich" <dakr@kernel.org>,
	"Daniel Almeida" <daniel.almeida@collabora.com>,
	"David Airlie" <airlied@gmail.com>,
	"Simona Vetter" <simona@ffwll.ch>
Cc: "Alistair Popple" <apopple@nvidia.com>,
	"Timur Tabi" <ttabi@nvidia.com>, "Zhi Wang" <zhiw@nvidia.com>,
	"Eliot Courtney" <ecourtney@nvidia.com>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org>,
	<driver-core@lists.linux.dev>, <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] rust: add `bitfield!` macro
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2026 10:08:22 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DHU6EGW46AID.Y0243IOI1YWM@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <798e83e6-eb7b-4502-85e7-5a0f6d9c6281@nvidia.com>

On Thu Apr 16, 2026 at 8:22 AM JST, John Hubbard wrote:
> On 4/9/26 7:58 AM, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
>> This is the continuation of the `bitfield!` macro which started
>> alongside the `register!` one before being temporarily integrated into
>> it [1].
>> 
>> There were still ongoing discussions in [1], notably about improving the
>> ergonomics of setting bitfield values. This revision doesn't try to
>> address them yet (although the `with_const` setters partially solve the
>> issue); it just extracts the `bitfield!` macro and makes it available,
>> for the following reasons:
>> 
>> - To get the ball rolling again after several months of hiatus,
>> - Because it is already useful as-is, and ergonomics will be improved
>
> Yes, and I'm worried now that we can't write things such as Joel's page
> tables without it.
>
> Can we please put this into your drm-rust-next-staging ASAP? I don't
> think we have any comments that would really need to hold that up.
>
>
> thanks,

Yes this seems fine to me as well. I'm personally fine with improving
the build errors in a follow-up.

  reply	other threads:[~2026-04-16  1:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-09 14:58 [PATCH v2 0/3] rust: add `bitfield!` macro Alexandre Courbot
2026-04-09 14:58 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] rust: extract `bitfield!` macro from `register!` Alexandre Courbot
2026-04-13  2:29   ` Eliot Courtney
2026-04-15 23:18     ` John Hubbard
2026-04-16  1:35   ` Yury Norov
2026-04-09 14:58 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] rust: bitfield: Add KUNIT tests for bitfield Alexandre Courbot
2026-04-13  2:28   ` Eliot Courtney
2026-04-16  2:44   ` Yury Norov
2026-04-16  6:59     ` Alice Ryhl
2026-04-16 12:48       ` Yury Norov
2026-04-09 14:58 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] gpu: nova-core: switch to kernel bitfield macro Alexandre Courbot
2026-04-13  2:01   ` Eliot Courtney
2026-04-15 23:20   ` John Hubbard
2026-04-15 23:22 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] rust: add `bitfield!` macro John Hubbard
2026-04-16  1:08   ` Eliot Courtney [this message]
2026-04-16 22:18   ` Danilo Krummrich
2026-04-16 22:43     ` John Hubbard
2026-04-17  1:33     ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-04-17  3:11       ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-04-17  3:19         ` John Hubbard
2026-04-17  3:57           ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-04-17  4:15             ` John Hubbard
2026-04-17  5:55     ` Miguel Ojeda
2026-04-17 10:59       ` Mark Brown
2026-04-17 12:30         ` Danilo Krummrich
2026-04-17 12:00       ` Danilo Krummrich
2026-04-17 12:21         ` Miguel Ojeda
2026-04-17 14:59           ` Danilo Krummrich

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