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From: "Danilo Krummrich" <dakr@kernel.org>
To: "Alexandre Courbot" <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Cc: "Timur Tabi" <ttabi@nvidia.com>, <driver-core@lists.linux.dev>,
	<nova-gpu@lists.linux.dev>, <rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Eliot Courtney" <ecourtney@nvidia.com>,
	"Zhi Wang" <zhiw@nvidia.com>,
	"John Hubbard" <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
	"Luis Chamberlain" <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
	"Russ Weight" <russ.weight@linux.dev>,
	"Miguel Ojeda" <ojeda@kernel.org>, "Gary Guo" <gary@garyguo.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] rust: firmware: add request_into_buf()
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:50:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DJRFIANMW0AM.2LAQJ114NJQYH@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DJR9ZKFB5WQQ.1CGI0N3GS1SFM@nvidia.com>

On Mon Jul 6, 2026 at 8:30 AM CEST, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> Sashiko is correct to point out that this doesn't return the number of
> bytes actually written into `buf`. We might not use that information in
> nova-core, but this is a kernel-wide API.

Returning the size only doesn't carry a lot of value, please see [1].

> Returning a `Result<&[u8]>` would take care of this and cover the
> general use-case nicely.

I'm fine with either this or just Result, as we don't have a user for the
former.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/nova-gpu/DJ6JV2QQY0QD.1ZK1PRRBN5BRP@kernel.org/

  reply	other threads:[~2026-07-06 10:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-02 19:27 [PATCH v3 0/7] Transition Nova Core to TLV firmare images Timur Tabi
2026-07-02 19:27 ` [PATCH v3 1/7] rust: firmware: add request_into_buf() Timur Tabi
2026-07-03  2:51   ` Alvin Sun
2026-07-03  3:06     ` Timur Tabi
2026-07-03 13:51       ` Danilo Krummrich
2026-07-06  6:30   ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-07-06 10:50     ` Danilo Krummrich [this message]
2026-07-02 19:27 ` [PATCH v3 2/7] gpu: nova-core: add TLV parser for firmware files Timur Tabi
2026-07-02 19:45   ` Timur Tabi
2026-07-06  6:31     ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-07-06  6:31   ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-07-02 19:27 ` [PATCH v3 3/7] gpu: nova-core: transition booter_load to TLV images Timur Tabi
2026-07-06  6:31   ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-07-02 19:27 ` [PATCH v3 4/7] gpu: nova-core: transition gsp " Timur Tabi
2026-07-02 19:27 ` [PATCH v3 5/7] gpu: nova-core: transition gen_bootloader " Timur Tabi
2026-07-06  6:31   ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-07-02 19:27 ` [PATCH v3 6/7] gpu: nova-core: transition fsp " Timur Tabi
2026-07-02 19:27 ` [PATCH v3 7/7] gpu: nova-core: update firmware module info for " Timur Tabi

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