linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] rust: add new macro for common bitmap operations

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Message-ID: <5cfcde7c0b22e8b002f89b839b6edfdf41043022.camel@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 18:50:30 -0400
From: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
To: Daniel Almeida <daniel.almeida@...labora.com>
Cc: Filipe Xavier <felipeaggger@...il.com>, 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>,  Danilo Krummrich	 <dakr@...nel.org>,
 rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org, felipe_life@...e.com, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] rust: add new macro for common bitmap operations

Yeah - IMO it would be a pretty good idea, since this was one of the original
motivations that I had when I had showed filipe some of the examples I
imagined of this. Especially since as well this provides a very nice way of
being able to document various bitflag values.

On Mon, 2025-03-31 at 19:35 -0300, Daniel Almeida wrote:
> > 
> > It seems like we can pass through docs just fine, but could we get something
> > to handle specifying actual discriminant values for the flag enum as well?
> > 
> 
> This should be possible, as the bitflags crate lets you do that in userspace. Their syntax is a bit different than what
> we currently have in `impl_flags` though.
> 
> — Daniel

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Cheers,
 Lyude Paul (she/her)
 Software Engineer at Red Hat

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