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Message-ID: <Z8fdoWB5hMHe0EaB@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2025 07:14:09 +0200
From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@...nel.org>
To: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@...ton.me>
Cc: 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>,
	Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@...nel.org>,
	Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>, Trevor Gross <tmgross@...ch.edu>,
	Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 22/22] MAINTAINERS: add entry for the `pin-init` crate

On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 12:43:18AM +0000, Benno Lossin wrote:
> On Wed Mar 5, 2025 at 1:17 AM CET, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 04, 2025 at 10:56:27PM +0000, Benno Lossin wrote:
> >> Add maintainers entry for the `pin-init` crate.
> >>
> >> This crate is already being maintained by me, but until now there
> >> existed two different versions: the version inside of the kernel tree
> >> and a user-space version at [1]. The previous patches synchronized these
> >> two versions to reduce the maintenance burden. In order to keep them
> >> synchronized from now on, separate the maintenance from other Rust code.
> >>
> >> Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/pin-init [1]
> >> Signed-off-by: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@...ton.me>
> >> ---
> >>  MAINTAINERS | 13 +++++++++++++
> >>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> >> index 8e0736dc2ee0..ced7fac4dbbe 100644
> >> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> >> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> >> @@ -20735,6 +20735,19 @@ S:	Maintained
> >>  F:	rust/kernel/alloc.rs
> >>  F:	rust/kernel/alloc/
> >>
> >> +RUST [PIN-INIT]
> >
> > In some subsystems the order is exactly the opposite. E.g.,
> >
> > ASIX PHY DRIVER [RUST]
> 
> I think that `RUST [PIN-INIT]` makes sense in this case, since it is a
> core Rust library. In the example you gave above, the `ASIX PHY DRIVER`
> subsystem already exists, so it makes sense to have a rustified version.
> With pin-init, there is no C counterpart. So IMO the only other
> alternative would be just `PIN-INIT`.

Right, got it, thanks.

BR, Jarkko