linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] rust: WMI abstractions

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Message-Id: <DF4Q36EVR4Y7.2MXOCNR87IPBF@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2025 12:52:44 +0100
From: "Danilo Krummrich" <dakr@...nel.org>
To: "Gladyshev Ilya" <foxido@...ido.dev>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] rust: WMI abstractions

On Sun Dec 21, 2025 at 7:22 PM CET, Gladyshev Ilya wrote:
> Overview
> ========
> This patchset was developed some time ago out of pure curiosity
> about the R4L project, but I believe it may still be useful, so
> I decided to resume and post this work.
> The goal of my curiosity is to develop a simple WMI driver in Rust
> for unsupported laptop (I have some laying around) or, as a last
> resort, submit a rewrite of redmi-wmi as a sample driver -- if that
> would be acceptable.

It depends on the subsystem maintainer, please also see [1].

[1] https://rust-for-linux.com/rust-reference-drivers

> Why RFC?
> ========
> 1. No real users for now

Above it does sound like you are working on a new WMI driver as well?