Re: [PATCH v8 00/14] hrtimer Rust API

[Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>]

Le Sat, Feb 22, 2025 at 02:04:16PM +0100, Miguel Ojeda a écrit :
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 12:20 PM Frederic Weisbecker
> <frederic@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > I was thinking the patchset would be better routed towards the Rust tree?
> >
> > How do you guys proceed usually with bindings tree maintainance?
> 
> So far, what we have been doing is ask maintainers, first, if they
> would be willing take the patches themselves -- they are the experts
> of the subsystem, know what changes are incoming, etc. Some subsystems
> have done this (e.g. KUnit). That is ideal, because the goal is to
> scale and allows maintainers to be in full control.
> 
> Of course, sometimes maintainers are not fully comfortable doing that,
> since they may not have the bandwidth, or the setup, or the Rust
> knowledge. In those cases, we typically ask if they would be willing
> to have a co-maintainer (i.e. in their entry, e.g. like locking did),
> or a sub-maintainer (i.e. in a new entry, e.g. like block did), that
> would take care of the bulk of the work from them.
> 
> I think that is a nice middle-ground -- the advantage of doing it like
> that is that you get the benefits of knowing best what is going on
> without too much work (hopefully), and it may allow you to get more
> and more involved over time and confident on what is going on with the
> Rust callers, typical issues that appear, etc. Plus the sub-maintainer
> gets to learn more about the subsystem, its timelines, procedures,
> etc., which you may welcome (if you are looking for new people to get
> involved).
> 
> I think that would be a nice middle-ground. As far as I understand,
> Andreas would be happy to commit to maintain the Rust side as a
> sub-maintainer (for instance). He would also need to make sure the
> tree builds properly with Rust enabled and so on. He already does
> something similar for Jens. Would that work for you?
> 
> You could take the patches directly with his RoBs or Acked-bys, for
> instance. Or perhaps it makes more sense to take PRs from him (on the
> Rust code only, of course), to save you more work. Andreas does not
> send PRs to anyone yet, but I think it would be a good time for him to
> start learning how to apply patches himself etc.
> 
> If not, then the last fallback would be putting it in the Rust tree as
> a sub-entry or similar.
> 
> I hope that clarifies (and thanks whatever you decide!).

Yes this clarifies a lot, thanks for the detailed options.
I think it's preferrable that you guys maintain it because you
are the experts with these Rust bindings and you'll be much
more flexible committing and pushing to your own tree instead
of waiting on us lagging to comprehend the content of each
pull requests.

Just keep us in Cc so we stay in touch with what's going on.

Thanks a lot!

> 
> Cheers,
> Miguel