linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/6] rust: time: Implement PartialEq and PartialOrd for Ktime

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <3A5036A5-EAC9-4B5D-8162-B140724CF3BF@kloenk.dev>
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2024 10:28:02 +0200
From: Fiona Behrens <me@...enk.dev>
To: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@...il.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org, andrew@...n.ch,
 hkallweit1@...il.com, tmgross@...ch.edu, ojeda@...nel.org,
 alex.gaynor@...il.com, gary@...yguo.net, bjorn3_gh@...tonmail.com,
 benno.lossin@...ton.me, a.hindborg@...sung.com, aliceryhl@...gle.com,
 anna-maria@...utronix.de, frederic@...nel.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
 arnd@...db.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/6] rust: time: Implement PartialEq and
 PartialOrd for Ktime



On 7 Oct 2024, at 7:37, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:

> On Sun, 06 Oct 2024 12:28:59 +0200
> Fiona Behrens <finn@...enk.dev> wrote:
>
>>> Implement PartialEq and PartialOrd trait for Ktime by using C's
>>> ktime_compare function so two Ktime instances can be compared to
>>> determine whether a timeout is met or not.
>>
>> Why is this only PartialEq/PartialOrd? Could we either document why or implement Eq/Ord as well?
>
> Because what we need to do is comparing two Ktime instances so we
> don't need them?

Eq is basically just a marker trait, so you could argue we would never need it. I think because those 2 traits mostly just document logic it would make sense to also implement them to not create rethinking if then there is some logic that might want it and then the question is why was it omitted.

 - Fiona