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Message-ID: <20230419125847.2083dbf5.gary@garyguo.net>
Date:   Wed, 19 Apr 2023 12:58:47 +0100
From:   Gary Guo <gary@...yguo.net>
To:     Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>
Cc:     Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@...il.com>,
        Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@...il.com>,
        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
        Björn Roy Baron <bjorn3_gh@...tonmail.com>,
        Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@...ton.me>,
        Josh Stone <jistone@...hat.com>,
        William Brown <william.brown@...e.com>,
        Georgy Yakovlev <gyakovlev@...too.org>,
        Jan Alexander Steffens <jan.steffens@...il.com>,
        rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        patches@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] rust: alloc: clarify what is the upstream version

On Tue, 18 Apr 2023 23:43:45 +0200
Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org> wrote:

> It may be unclear for readers which upstream Rust version these files
> are based on. They may be unaware that they are intended to match the
> minimum (and only, so far) supported version of Rust in the kernel.
> 
> Thus clarify it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>

Reviewed-by: Gary Guo <gary@...yguo.net>

> ---
>  rust/alloc/README.md | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/rust/alloc/README.md b/rust/alloc/README.md
> index c89c753720b5..eb6f22e94ebf 100644
> --- a/rust/alloc/README.md
> +++ b/rust/alloc/README.md
> @@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ upstream. In general, only additions should be performed (e.g. new
>  methods). Eventually, changes should make it into upstream so that,
>  at some point, this fork can be dropped from the kernel tree.
>  
> +The Rust upstream version on top of which these files are based matches
> +the output of `scripts/min-tool-version.sh rustc`.
> +
>  
>  ## Rationale
>