Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: TPM DEVICE DRIVER: linux-tpmdd-nixos

[Fiona Behrens <me@kloenk.dev>]

Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org> writes:

> On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 10:22:10AM +0100, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > This is my new testing tree for my kernel tree. It will over time replace
>> > my previous BuildRoot based testing tree (but not just yet).
>> 
>> Thanks for Cc'ing! I assume this is related to your subsystem and that
>> it will go through there.
>> 
>> Cc'ing Fiona as well since she was interested in Nix and Tamir who
>> does macOS; so they may be interested.
>
> Yeah, so I just used get_maintainer.pl and it picked you but I'm
> happy if you enjoy it :-) linux-tpmdd comes originally from TPM driver
> but these days it's really just my maintainer tree for every possible
> pull request I do, as I'm also e.g. Linux keyring co-maintainer.
>
> My biggest barrier with Rust has been testing (like almost always in any
> software engineering problem) so I just figured out something that would
> sort it out for me. I also thought that by starting doing some testing
> for Rust patch sets that contain some tests would be a low-barrier way
> for me to learn a bit how everything works in that side.
>
> I think I quickly talked about this with Fiona and this is a bit
> different angle in a way i.e., using Nix for profit as a tool to
> implement together with Docker a trivial embedded build system so that
> you can build kernel + EFI in any operating system (I personally use
> Fedora).

Yeah exactly, took me a while to understand your usage :)
I use nix mainly as a dev shell and plan to add building the kernel
through nix.

Once I have the time and remember this still then I might try to include
your work in the nix repo I maintain. Maybe we can also build docker
container images for kernel development processes using nix and stuff
like that.

Thanks,
Fiona

>
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Miguel
>
> BR, Jarkko