netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v7 1/5] rust: core abstractions for network PHY drivers

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Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2023 20:23:58 +0200
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@...ton.me>
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@...il.com>, boqun.feng@...il.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org,
	tmgross@...ch.edu, miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com,
	wedsonaf@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v7 1/5] rust: core abstractions for network PHY
 drivers

On Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 04:37:53PM +0000, Benno Lossin wrote:
> On 28.10.23 11:27, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Oct 2023 21:19:38 +0000
> > Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@...ton.me> wrote:
> >> I did not notice this before, but this means we cannot use the `link`
> >> function from bindgen, since that takes `&self`. We would need a
> >> function that takes `*const Self` instead.
> > 
> > Implementing functions to access to a bitfield looks tricky so we need
> > to add such feature to bindgen or we add getters to the C side?
> 
> Indeed, I just opened an issue [1] on the bindgen repo.
> 
> [1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/issues/2674

Please could you help me understand the consequences here. Are you
saying the rust toolchain is fatally broken here, it cannot generate
valid code at the moment? As a result we need to wait for a new
version of bindgen?

	Andrew