linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 2/2] rust: add dma coherent allocator abstraction.

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Message-ID: <Z4kG5AcVeQKegLnb@pollux>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 14:17:24 +0100
From: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>,
	Abdiel Janulgue <abdiel.janulgue@...il.com>,
	daniel.almeida@...labora.com, aliceryhl@...gle.com,
	robin.murphy@....com, rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org,
	Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>,
	Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@...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@...nel.org>,
	Trevor Gross <tmgross@...ch.edu>,
	Valentin Obst <kernel@...entinobst.de>,
	open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>, airlied@...hat.com,
	"open list:DMA MAPPING HELPERS" <iommu@...ts.linux.dev>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 2/2] rust: add dma coherent allocator abstraction.

On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 11:41:54AM +0100, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 09:39:55AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 09, 2025 at 09:49:47AM +0100, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 09, 2025 at 09:08:12AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Jan 08, 2025 at 04:21:33PM +0100, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> > > > > What does "your code" mean? Duplicated in every driver?
> > > > 
> > > > Yes, interfaces to the DMA API should stay in readable C code and not
> > > > in weird bindings so that it reminds greppable and maintainable.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Rust drivers shouldn't use C APIs directly, but rather use an abstraction of the
> > > corresponding C API.
> > 
> > Don't force me to deal with your shiny language of the day.
> 
> Again, no one asks you to deal with or maintain this piece of Rust code.
> 
> > Maintaining
> > multi-language projects is a pain I have no interest in dealing with.
> > If you want to use something that's not C, be that assembly or rust you
> > write to C interfaces and deal with the impedence mismatch yourself as
> > far as I'm concerned.
> > 
> 
> This is exactly what we're doing and proposing here, isn't it?
> 
> We wrote a single piece of Rust code that abstracts the C API for all Rust
> drivers, which we offer to maintain ourselves.
> 
> What else are you asking for?

Since there hasn't been a reply so far, I assume that we're good with
maintaining the DMA Rust abstractions separately.

Hence, the next version of this patch series will have the corresponding
maintainer entry.

- Danilo