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

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Message-ID: <cabb91e97a5e563cccbffd56f331a477@manjaro.org>
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2024 21:17:08 +0100
From: Dragan Simic <dsimic@...jaro.org>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, Christina Quast
 <contact@...istina-quast.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] net: phy: add Rust Rockchip PHY driver

On 2024-02-01 19:23, Greg KH wrote:
> 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?

I'd also like to know what's the intended purpose of rewriting a mature
existing PHY driver in Rust?