linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4] scripts: checkpatch: warn on Rust panicking methods

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Message-ID: <CANiq72kiJU4sLqLNnz8ZV7JbVo4M77119LwZ9+FBj6Wr6nE0Uw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2026 19:11:19 +0100
From: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
To: Onur Özkan <work@...rozkan.dev>
Cc: Jkhall81 <jason.kei.hall@...il.com>, dirk.behme@...bosch.com, joe@...ches.com, 
	ojeda@...nel.org, rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] scripts: checkpatch: warn on Rust panicking methods

On Tue, Feb 3, 2026 at 4:49 PM Onur Özkan <work@...rozkan.dev> wrote:
>
> Me neither. I wonder why we are doing this instead of using the
> unwrap_used and expect_used linting rules from clippy. This would
> catch the problem much earlier than checkpath since many of us build
> the kernel with CLIPPY=1 flag.

Please see my reply to Dirk and the context I link there, but
regarding the existing Clippy lints: we want to have the `// TAG`
style comments, rather than attributes, so we are waiting for the
Clippy lints on this.

Cheers,
Miguel