linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 00/31] Rust support

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Message-ID: <YukYByl76DKqa+iD@casper.infradead.org>
Date:   Tue, 2 Aug 2022 13:26:47 +0100
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@...nel.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, linux-um@...ts.infradead.org,
        live-patching@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 00/31] Rust support

On Tue, Aug 02, 2022 at 03:49:47AM +0200, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> Some of the improvements to the abstractions and example drivers are:
> 
>   - Filesystem support (`fs` module), including:
> 
>       + `INode` type (which wraps `struct inode`).
>       + `DEntry` type (which wraps `struct dentry`).
>       + `Filename` type (which wraps `struct filename`).
>       + `Registration` type.
>       + `Type` and `Context` traits.
>       + `SuperBlock` type (which wraps `struct super_block` and takes
>         advantage of typestates for its initialization).
>       + File system parameters support (with a `Value` enum; `Spec*`
>         and `Constant*` types, `define_fs_params!` macro...).
>       + File system flags.
>       + `module_fs!` macro to simplify registering kernel modules that
>         only implement a single file system.
>       + A file system sample.

None of this (afaict) has been discussed on linux-fsdevel.  And I may
have missed somethiing, but I don't see the fs module in this series
of patches.  Could linux-fsdevel be cc'd on the development of Rust
support for filesystems in the future?