linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] Introduce bitfield and move register macro to rust/kernel/

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Message-Id: <DDC4DA0BPHRC.3P5M2CXSJYYTI@nvidia.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2025 22:20:54 +0900
From: "Alexandre Courbot" <acourbot@...dia.com>
To: "Miguel Ojeda" <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>, "Alexandre Courbot"
 <acourbot@...dia.com>, "Yury Norov" <yury.norov@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] Introduce bitfield and move register macro to
 rust/kernel/

On Tue Oct 7, 2025 at 7:42 PM JST, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2025 at 12:36 PM Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@...dia.com> wrote:
>>
>> We can assume maintainership of this of course, but is there a problem
>> if this falls under the core Rust umbrella? As this is a pretty core
>> functionality. Miguel and other core folks, WDYT?
>
> I think what Yury may mean is that this should get an explicit
> `MAINTAINERS` subentry even if it falls under `rust/kernel/` -- I
> agree that is a good idea.

Ack - how do you expect things to work in terms of code flow? Do we need
to have a dedicated tree and send you pull requests? If so, should we
host it under the Rust-for-Linux Github org?