linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 00/14] hrtimer Rust API

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Message-ID: <87frk7hera.fsf@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2025 09:40:41 +0100
From: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@...nel.org>
To: "Frederic Weisbecker" <frederic@...nel.org>
Cc: "Anna-Maria Behnsen" <anna-maria@...utronix.de>,  "Thomas Gleixner"
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 00/14] hrtimer Rust API

"Frederic Weisbecker" <frederic@...nel.org> writes:

> Le Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 12:02:50PM +0100, Andreas Hindborg a écrit :
>> "Andreas Hindborg" <a.hindborg@...nel.org> writes:
>>
>> > This series adds support for using the `hrtimer` subsystem from Rust code.
>> >
>> > The series adds support for timer mode and clock source configuration during
>> > timer initialization. Examples and functionality to execute closures at timer
>> > expiration has been removed, as these depend on either atomics [3] or
>> > `SpinLockIrq` [4], which are still being worked on.
>> >
>> > This series is a dependency for unmerged features of the Rust null block driver
>> > [1], and for rkvms [2].
>> >
>>
>> @ timer subsystem maintainers: did you discuss how you want to set up
>> maintenance for this yet? As mentioned, I'm happy stepping up to
>> maintain this, but if you want to handle it with existing resources that
>> is perfectly fine as well.
>
> You're the best candidate to maintain this code since you wrote it :-)
>
> Also I personally have near zero skills in Rust as of today so all I can do
> is to vaguely keep an eye on the binding's interface and keep in touch
> with the changes.
>
> So I suggest you to add a new entry with you as a maintainer (I suggested
> something similar to Fujita for some other timer related things) but please
> keep us Cc'ed for future changes.

Alright, lets do that.

Do you want to pick future changes to this directly form list or would
you prefer that I send you a PR with changes?

We are probably going to have a new iteration anyway, as discussion
picked up again.


Best regards,
Andreas Hindborg