linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 6/6] rust: use strict provenance APIs

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Message-ID: <D8KIHNXCPE0P.K4MD7QJ1AC17@proton.me>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 20:06:29 +0000
From: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@...ton.me>
To: Tamir Duberstein <tamird@...il.com>
Cc: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>, Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>, Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>, Nicolas Schier <nicolas@...sle.eu>, 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>, Trevor Gross <tmgross@...ch.edu>, Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>, Brendan Higgins <brendan.higgins@...ux.dev>, David Gow <davidgow@...gle.com>, Rae Moar <rmoar@...gle.com>, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>, Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>, Russ Weight <russ.weight@...ux.dev>, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, Saravana Kannan <saravanak@...gle.com>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, kunit-dev@...glegroups.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 6/6] rust: use strict provenance APIs

On Wed Mar 19, 2025 at 7:23 PM CET, Tamir Duberstein wrote:
> The improved ergonomics arrive in Rust 1.79. See Boqun's reply that
> explains we need to keep all the stubs until then.
>
> Regarding landing the rest of the series - you said it yourself: "it's
> only going to get more painful in the long run to change this". The
> nature of lints is that the longer you don't enable them, the likelier
> you are to have a higher hill to climb later.

Yeah that's also true (for some reason I was understanding "dropping"
the patch as "abandoning" the patch :)
As discussed in the meeting, feel free to split the series.

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Cheers,
Benno