linux-kernel - Re: [WIP 1/3] rust: Introduce atomic module

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Message-ID: <CANiq72m4n2B0K5t1ZESMcL_k=Wgttuwd8=THBbOYYPq_D+4hsg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2024 20:09:57 +0100
From: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
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Subject: Re: [WIP 1/3] rust: Introduce atomic module

On Sat, Mar 23, 2024 at 3:10 PM Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch> wrote:
>
> Just looking down the road a bit, are there other features in the
> standard library which are not applicable to Linux kernel space?
> Ideally we want a solution not just for atomics but a generic solution
> which can disable a collection of features? Maybe one by one?

We requested a few of these in the past for both `core` [1] and
`alloc` [2], and we got some which we use (see the `cfg(no_*)`s). It
is what we called "modularization of `core`" too.

[1] https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/514
[2] https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/408

Cheers,
Miguel