Re: [PATCH] chore(util): minimal Rust build example

[Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>]

On Tue, May 09, 2023 at 10:57:18AM -0700, TruongSinh Tran-Nguyen wrote:
> On Tue, 9 May 2023 at 10:47, Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> wrote:
> 
> > We pretty heavily use to_text() functions kernel side; these output to
> > printbufs, and in Rust they map nicely to the Display trait - do we have
> > that available in the kernel or is that in std?
> >
> 
> https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/fmt/trait.Display.html Display trait is definitely
> in Rust `std`. As for the alternative from kernel, I am still searching.
> Worst case, there is nothing right now, Rust-for-linux folks would
> happy to take PR
> to include it.

I included them on the CC, maybe they'll have something to say.

> 
> > Sounds like that would be a welcome cleanup :)
> 
> By clean up, do you mean moving from `uuid_le` to `uuid_t`?
> 
> Also, I don't expect this PR to be merge, as it is for demonstration
> purposes only,
> however, what would be a minimum mergeable PR (related to Rust build)
> that you would consider?

First thing to look at is going to be moving all the code under
bch_bindgen in -tools into the kernel tree...