linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 1/2] rust: introduce abstractions for fwctl

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Message-ID: <20251102225253.GM1235738@nvidia.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2025 18:52:53 -0400
From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
To: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC 1/2] rust: introduce abstractions for fwctl

On Sun, Nov 02, 2025 at 06:26:58PM +0100, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> Hi Zhi,
> 
> Additional to my other comments, some thoughts about naming.
> 
> On Thu Oct 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM CET, Zhi Wang wrote:
> > +/// Trait implemented by each Rust driver that integrates with the fwctl subsystem.
> > +///
> > +/// Each implementation corresponds to a specific device type and provides
> > +/// the vtable used by the core `fwctl` layer to manage per-FD user contexts
> > +/// and handle RPC requests.
> > +pub trait FwCtlOps: Sized {
> 
> Up to Jason, but I usually recommend to take the Rust module name into account,
> i.e a user of the API can refer to this as fwctl::FwCtlOps.

I don't have any knowledge to have a preference, I trust you to guide
Zhi to whatever is the most common and appropriate thing here..

Thanks,
Jason