linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] nova-core: Add a library for bitfields in Rust structs

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Message-Id: <DCBG2OWWZV50.7A1XDXAOL0VK@nvidia.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2025 19:42:39 +0900
From: "Alexandre Courbot" <acourbot@...dia.com>
To: "Joel Fernandes" <joelagnelf@...dia.com>, "Boqun Feng"
 <boqun.feng@...il.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "Danilo Krummrich" <dakr@...nel.org>,
 "David Airlie" <airlied@...il.com>, "Simona Vetter" <simona@...ll.ch>,
 "Miguel Ojeda" <ojeda@...nel.org>, "Alex Gaynor" <alex.gaynor@...il.com>,
 "Gary Guo" <gary@...yguo.net>, Björn Roy Baron
 <bjorn3_gh@...tonmail.com>, "Benno Lossin" <lossin@...nel.org>, "Andreas
 Hindborg" <a.hindborg@...nel.org>, "Alice Ryhl" <aliceryhl@...gle.com>,
 "Trevor Gross" <tmgross@...ch.edu>, "John Hubbard" <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
 "Alistair Popple" <apopple@...dia.com>, <nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
 <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>, <rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] nova-core: Add a library for bitfields in Rust
 structs

On Mon Aug 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM JST, Joel Fernandes wrote:
>
>
> On 8/25/2025 9:44 AM, Boqun Feng wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 24, 2025 at 09:59:52AM -0400, Joel Fernandes wrote:
>>> Add a minimal bitfield library for defining in Rust structures (called
>>> bitstruct), similar in concept to bit fields in C structs. This will be used
>>> for defining page table entries and other structures in nova-core.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@...dia.com>
>> 
>> FWIW, Joel, I only received patch 1/2.
>
> Oh. Good catch, will CC you on 2/2 for the next time.

I believe the reason for that is that patch 1/2 has been send to
the rust-for-linux list, but not 2/2 despite it changing the Rust code
as well.