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Date:   Thu,  3 Aug 2023 02:04:36 -0400
From:   Trevor Gross <tmgross@...ch.edu>
To:     ojeda@...nel.org, alex.gaynor@...il.com, wedsonaf@...il.com
Cc:     boqun.feng@...il.com, gary@...yguo.net, bjorn3_gh@...tonmail.com,
        benno.lossin@...ton.me, corbet@....net, yakoyoku@...il.com,
        aliceryhl@...gle.com, tmgross@...ch.edu, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/2] docs: rust: update instructions for obtaining 'core' source

The source for Rust's 'core' library is needed to build the kernel with
Rust support. This sometimes needs to be obtained by hand when using a
standalone version of 'rustc' not managed by 'rustup'. Currently, the
documentation suggests cloning the 'rust' repository to obtain these
sources, but this is quite slow (on the order of a multiple minutes).

Change this documentation to suggest using the source tarball instead.
The tarball includes only needed files (<5M) and is significantly faster
to download; this is more in line with what 'rustup' does.

Also simplify wording of the relevant section.

Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/pull/1024
Signed-off-by: Trevor Gross <tmgross@...ch.edu>
Reviewed-by: Martin Rodriguez Reboredo <yakoyoku@...il.com>
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>
---
 Documentation/rust/quick-start.rst | 15 ++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/rust/quick-start.rst b/Documentation/rust/quick-start.rst
index a8931512ed98..632b115dd20d 100644
--- a/Documentation/rust/quick-start.rst
+++ b/Documentation/rust/quick-start.rst
@@ -56,16 +56,17 @@ If ``rustup`` is being used, run::
 The components are installed per toolchain, thus upgrading the Rust compiler
 version later on requires re-adding the component.
 
-Otherwise, if a standalone installer is used, the Rust repository may be cloned
-into the installation folder of the toolchain::
+Otherwise, if a standalone installer is used, the Rust source tree may be
+downloaded into the toolchain's installation folder::
 
-	git clone --recurse-submodules \
-		--branch $(scripts/min-tool-version.sh rustc) \
-		https://github.com/rust-lang/rust \
-		$(rustc --print sysroot)/lib/rustlib/src/rust
+	curl -L "https://static.rust-lang.org/dist/rust-src-$(scripts/min-tool-version.sh rustc).tar.gz" |
+		tar -xzf - -C "$(rustc --print sysroot)/lib" \
+		"rust-src-$(scripts/min-tool-version.sh rustc)/rust-src/lib/" \
+		--strip-components=3
 
 In this case, upgrading the Rust compiler version later on requires manually
-updating this clone.
+updating the source tree (this can be done by removing ``$(rustc --print
+sysroot)/lib/rustlib/src/rust`` then rerunning the above command).
 
 
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