linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] rust: helpers: Add list helpers for C linked list operations

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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2025 10:15:47 -0800
From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
To: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] rust: helpers: Add list helpers for C linked list
 operations

On 11/26/25 2:06 AM, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 2:39 AM John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com> wrote:
>>
>> Yes. I am increasingly uneasy with the Rust for Linux approach, and
>> now the Nova approach, of adding in "things we might need".
> 
> Excuse me, what "Rust for Linux approach"?
> 
> No, we do not add dead code unless justified, just like everywhere
> else in the Linux kernel.
> 
> Yes, there are a few exceptional cases, but it is just that, exceptional.
> 

I stand corrected (and relieved)! :)

Thanks, Miguel.


thanks,
-- 
John Hubbard