linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] scripts: generate_rust_analyzer.py: add missing include

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Message-ID: <CAJ-ks9mEb=u6X04ozhmKs_ky5Cv_zE=mmqmWPCKV4Nk_3JVkpQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 19:06:32 -0400
From: Tamir Duberstein <tamird@...il.com>
To: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
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>, 
	Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@...ton.me>, Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@...nel.org>, 
	Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>, Trevor Gross <tmgross@...ch.edu>, Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>, 
	Fiona Behrens <me@...enk.dev>, Martin Rodriguez Reboredo <yakoyoku@...il.com>, Asahi Lina <lina@...hilina.net>, 
	Boris-Chengbiao Zhou <bobo1239@....de>, rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] scripts: generate_rust_analyzer.py: add missing include_dirs

\On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 7:01 PM Miguel Ojeda
<miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 11:48 PM Tamir Duberstein <tamird@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > I don't follow this; there's a bindings crate at 8c4555ccc55c
> > ("scripts: add `generate_rust_analyzer.py`") - at least as far as RA
> > is concerned.
>
> By "before being in mainline" I mean before Rust was in Linus' tree,
> i.e. a long time ago in the old `rust` branch.
>
> Back then, there was a period of time when there was no `bindings`
> crate. At some point it was split from the `kernel` crate, which did
> have the `include_dirs` for that reason, and at that moment the
> `include_dirs` should have been moved too, but it wasn't.
>
> So we ended up with `include_dirs` in the `kernel` crate for no reason
> (because AFAICS it was not needed until we got
> `generated_arch_static_branch_asm.rs`, but I haven't actually tested
> that in RA) and missing it in the `bindings` one where it was actually
> needed.
>
> (I was trying to understand how we ended up here just to double-check
> why we had things split like that)

Ack, thanks for explaining.

> > Yes, without it `generated_arch_static_branch_asm.rs` is not found by RA.
>
> Thanks for confirming!

You're welcome!