linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] net: phy: add Rust Rockchip PHY driver

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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2024 10:23:03 -0800
From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Christina Quast <contact@...istina-quast.de>
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>, Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@...il.com>,
	Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@...il.com>,
	Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>, Gary Guo <gary@...yguo.net>,
	Björn Roy Baron <bjorn3_gh@...tonmail.com>,
	Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@...ton.me>,
	Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@...sung.com>,
	Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>,
	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@...il.com>,
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	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Heiko Stuebner <heiko@...ech.de>, rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-rockchip@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] net: phy: add Rust Rockchip PHY driver

On Thu, Feb 01, 2024 at 07:07:00PM +0100, Christina Quast wrote:
> This is the Rust implementation of drivers/net/phy/rockchip.c. The
> features are equivalent. You can choose C or Rust version kernel
> configuration.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christina Quast <contact@...istina-quast.de>
Cool, but why?  Is this going to happen for all phy drivers going
forward?  What's the end-game here, dropping all .c phy drivers that are
in rust?  Or having duplicates for all of them?

thanks,

greg k-h